Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The eighteenth century as a vanishing point
  • Part I. Derzhavin's moment
  • 1. The empresses' histories: Lomonosov and Derzhavin
  • 2. Catherine's passing: hybrid genres of commemoration
  • 3. Poetry reads power: overcoming patronage
  • Part II. The fictions of the eighteenth century
  • 4. The verisimilar eighteenth century: historical fiction in the 1830s
  • 5. Mimetic temporalities: fashion from the eighteenth century to Pushkin's "The queen of spades"
  • 6. The margins of history: Ivan Turgenev's eighteenth-century characters.