Literary Journals in Imperial Russia

This is the first work to examine the extraordinary influence of literary journals in imperial Russia. Given the prohibition on political action or even political discussion in Russia, these journals served as the principal means by which Russia discovered, defined and shaped itself; and every major Russian novel of the nineteenth century was first published there in serial form. Essays by leading scholars analyse the social forces shaping literary journals, and the major journals and...
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This is the first work to examine the extraordinary influence of literary journals in imperial Russia. Given the prohibition on political action or even political discussion in Russia, these journals served as the principal means by which Russia discovered, defined and shaped itself; and every major Russian novel of the nineteenth century was first published there in serial form. Essays by leading scholars analyse the social forces shaping literary journals, and the major journals and journalists of the period.