Sovereign Fictions : Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism

The University of Chicago Press

Sovereign Fictions\nby Professor Ilya Kliger\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Professor Ilya Kliger\nTitle: Sovereign Fictions\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226831879\nISBN-10: 0226831876\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAn exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.\nThe nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward .