TY - GEN T1 - Noble subjects : the Russian novel and the gentry, 1762-1861 T2 - Studies of the Harriman Institute. A1 - Grigoryan, Bella LA - English PP - Dekalb, IL PB - NIU Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1035551245 AB - Relations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformation during the roughly one hundred-year period encompassing the reign of Catherine II (1762-1796) and ending with the Great Reforms initiated by Alexander II. This period also saw the gradual appearance, by the early decades of the nineteenth century, of a novelistic tradition that depicted the Russian society of its day. In Noble Subjects, Bella Grigoryan examines the rise of the Russian novel in relation to the political, legal, and social definitions that accrued to the nobility as an estate, urging readers to rethink the cultural and political origins of the genre. By examining works by Novikov, Karamzin, Pushkin, Bulgarin, Gogol, Goncharov, Aksakov, and Tolstoy alongside a selection of extra-literary sources (including mainstream periodicals, farming treatises, and domestic and conduct manuals), Grigoryan establishes links between the rise of the Russian novel and a broad-ranging interest in the figure of the male landowner in Russian public discourse. Noble Subjects traces the routes by which the rhetorical construction of the male landowner as an imperial subject and citizen produced a contested site of political, socio-cultural, and affective investment in the Russian cultural imagination. This interdisciplinary study reveals how the Russian novel developed, in part, as a carrier of a masculine domestic ideology. It will appeal to scholars and students of Russian history and literature. OP - 189 CN - PG2987.C68 G756 2018 SN - 9781609092320 SN - 1609092325 SN - 9781501757310 SN - 1501757318 SN - 9780875807744 SN - 0875807747 KW - Russian fiction : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Russian fiction : 18th century : History and criticism. KW - Landowners in literature. KW - Gentry in literature. KW - Roman russe : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman russe : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Propriétaires fonciers dans la littérature. KW - Gentry in literature KW - Landowners in literature KW - Russian fiction KW - Russland KW - 1700-1899 KW - Catherine II, Alexander II, Russian Tsars, Novikov, Karamzin, Pushkin, Bulgarin, Gogol, Goncharov, Aksakov, Tolstoy, Great Reforms in Russia. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -