Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810131859)

Ilya Vinitsky's Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia is the first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)--a poet, transla­tor of German romantic verse, and, crucially, mentor of Pushkin. It focuses overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history.

Vinitsky's "psychological biography" argues that Zhukovsky very consciously set out to create for himself an emotional life that reflected his unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual kinship. Vinitsky shows how Zhukovksy played a pivotal role in the evolution of ideas central to Russia's literary and cultural identity from the end of the eighteenth century into the decades following the Napoleonic Wars.

Author: Ilya Vinitsky
ISBN-10: 0810131854
ISBN-13: 9780810131859
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2015
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2016