{"product_id":"sovereign-fictions-poetics-and-politics-in-the-age-of-russian-realism-9780226831862","title":"Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In \u003ci\u003eSovereign Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism's distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s, including major works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Goncharov, and Turgenev, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period, including Alexander Druzhinin's \u003ci\u003ePolinka Saks\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), Aleksei Pisemsky's \u003ci\u003eOne Thousand Souls \u003c\/i\u003e(1858), and Vasily Sleptsov's \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction, \u003ci\u003eSovereign Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilya Kliger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Thinking Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226831862","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44002773434505,"sku":"9780226831862","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_13bd7c28-2f55-4362-9b36-da35b3cd0c87.jpg?v=1747720601","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/sovereign-fictions-poetics-and-politics-in-the-age-of-russian-realism-9780226831862","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}