Russian romanticism

Frontmatter -- RUSSIAN ROMANTICISM: TWO ESSAYS / LEIGHTON, LAUREN G. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ON A DISCRIMINATION OF RUSSIAN ROMANTICISM -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PAST ATTEMPTS AT A DEFINITION -- 3. PERIODIZATION -- 4. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS AND ROMANTIC GROUPINGS -- 5. THE PROBLEM OF POLEMICS -- 6. COMPARATIVISM, FOREIGN SCHOOLS, AND NARODNOST' -- 7. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY GENRES -- 8. ROMANTIC THEMES AND MOTIFS -- NOTES -- NARODNOST' AS A CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN ROMANTICISM -- 1. INTRODUCTION: SEVERAL NECESSARY WORDS -- 2. SIX ROMANTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF NARODNOST' -- 3. P. A. VJAZEMSKLJ: THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM; 'NATIVE GLORY' AND 'NATIVE PRIDE' -- 4. OREST SOMOV: NATIONAL ORIGINALITY; 'CUSTOMS AND MORES' -- 5. ¿. I. GREC: LANGUAGE AND THE KARAMZINIAN REFORMS; 'THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE' AND 'THE LANGUAGE OF BOOKS' -- 6. P. A. KATENIN: LANGUAGE AND THE LOMONOSOVIAN REFORMS; 'COMMON-FOLK LANGUAGE' AND FOLKLORE -- 7. A. A. BESTUZEV: THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH NEOCLASSICSM -- 8. P. ¿. VJAZEMSKIJ: ROMANTICISM AND NEOCLASSICISM -- 9. V. ¿. KJUXEL'BEKER: THE KATENINITE POSITION; THEORY OF GENRE AND THE FATHERLAND -- 10. KONDRATIJ RYLEEV: CIVICISM, DECEMBRISM, POLITICS; 'SPIRIT OF THE TIME' -- 11. A. S. PUsKIN: 'TRUE' ROMANTICISM; 'IMPRINT' AND 'MERIT' -- 12. D. V. VENEVITINOV: SCHELLINGISM AND PHILOSOPHY; 'THE POET'S OWN FEELINGS' -- 13. I. V. KIREEVSKIJ: RUSSIA AND THE WEST -- 14. ¿. ¿. BESTUZEV: RUSSIA, ROMANTICISM, AND HISTORY -- 15. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN ROMANTICISM -- INDEX -- Backmatter