Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature (The Unknown Nineteenth Century) - Hardcover

Morris, Marcia A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618118633 ISBN 13: 9781618118639

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2018

Synopsis

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia’s doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.

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About the Author

Marcia A. Morris is Professor of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University. She is the author of Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature, The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia and Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618118633
• ISBN 13: 9781618118639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192