Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia

by Ilya Vinitsky

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810131854
• ISBN13: 9780810131859
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"