TY  - BOOK
AU  - Austin,Paul M.
TI  - The exotic prisoner in Russian romanticism
SN  - 9780820433462
U1  - 891.709145 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism -- Russia
KW  - Prisoners in literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Russian literature, history and criticism
N2  - Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivity and exotic worlds. Between 1820 and 1840 there developed an enormous literature with hosts of prisoners in exotic locales in the Caucasus.Loneliness and desire for freedom competed with elaborate descriptions of unknown peoples - Chechens, Georgians, Tatars and Circassians - to produce a literature of unparalleled brilliance, brought to a dazzling culmination by Lermontov's "Bela" in 1839. The exotic prisoner theme with its exotic trappings then disappears, leaving as its heritage the powerful themes of loneliness and introspection which other writers were subsequently to give their own unique treatment
ER  -