The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of EmpireThe Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch. |
Contents
1 Sublime Beginnings | 28 |
2 The Ode and the Empress | 62 |
3 Sublime Dissent | 120 |
4 Pushkin Lermontov and the Elegiac Sublime | 160 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Notes | 236 |
Bibliography | 266 |
Index | 290 |
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