Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : fact, fiction, and the anxiety of genre
  • An overview of the romantic era
  • Fact and fiction in the romantic novel
  • The changing and the unchanged
  • Masterpieces in context : Taras bulba and The captain's daughter
  • Tolstoy's "book" and a new kind of historical novel
  • The age of positivism : "Historiographie romancée"
  • The end of progress : facets of the modernist paradigm
  • In lieu of a conclusion : A tale of three cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersburg in the Russian historical novel.