Mirsky D.S. A History of Russian Literature: Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature'

Routledge, 2021. — 557 p. — ISBN: 978-0-367-68495-2 (Set); ISBN: 978-1-003-15462-4 (Set) (ebk); ISBN: 978-0-367-74051-1 (Volume 6) (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-003-15588-1 (Volume 6) (ebk). — (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature. Volume 6).Book One: To 1881The Literature of Old RussiaThe literary language
Literary conditions
Translated works
The Kievan period
The chronicles
The Campaign of Igor and its family
Between Kiev and Moscow
The muscovite period
Muscovite histories
Beginnings of fiction
The end of Old Muscovy: AvvakumThe Passing of Old RussiaThe Southwestern Revival
The transition in Moscow and Petersburg
The first literary verse
The drama
Fiction and chapbooksThe Age of ClassicismKantemir
Trediakovsky
Lomonosov
Narrative and lyric poetry after Lomonosov
Derzhavin
The drama
Eighteenth-century prose
Karamzin
Contemporaries of Karamzin
Krylov
The novelThe Golden Age of PoetryZhukovsky
Other poets of the older generation
Pushkin
Minor poets
Baratynsky
Yazykov
Metaphysical poets
The theater
Griboyedov
The poets’ prose
The rise of the novel
The prose of Pushkin
The growth of journalismThe Age of GogolThe decline of poetry
Koltsov
Tyutchev
Lermontov
The poetry of reflection
The drama
The novelists of the Thirties
Gogol
Lermontov’s prose
The first naturalists
The Petersburg journalists
The Moscow “circles”
The Slavophils
BelinskyThe Age of Realism: The Novelists (I)Origin and character of the Russian realistic novel
Dostoyevsky’s early work
Aksakov
Goncharov
Turgenev
The sentimental philanthropists
Pisemsky
Novelists of provincial characterThe Age of Realism: Journalists, Poets, and PlaywrightsCriticism after Belinsky
Grigoriev
Herzen
The radical leaders
Slavophils and nationalists
The eclectic poets
A. K. Tolstoy
Fet
Realistic poets
Nekrasov
The utter decline of poetry
The drama
Ostrovsky
Sukhovo-Kobylin, Pisemsky, and minor dramatists
The costume playThe Age of Realism: The Novelists (II)Tolstoy (before 1880)
Dostoyevsky (after 1849)
Saltykov-Schedrin
The decline of the novel in the Sixties and Seventies
The “plebeian” novelistsBook Two: After 1881The End of a Great AgeTolstoy (after 1880)
Leskov
Poetry: Sluchevsky
The leaders of the intelligentsia: Mikhaylovsky
The conservatives
LeontievThe Eighties and Early NinetiesGarshin
Minor novelists
Emigres
Korolenko
The literary lawyers
Poets
Vladimir Soloviev
ChekhovInterchapter: The First Revolution (1905)Prose Fiction after ChekhovGorky
The Znanie school of fiction
Kuprin
Bunin
Andreyev
Artsybashev
Sergeyev-tsensky
Feuilletonists and humoristsThe New Movements of the NinetiesThe aesthetic revival
Merezhkovsky
Rozanov
Shestov
Other “religious philosophers”
The Landmarks and afterThe SymbolistsBalmont
Bryusov
Metaphysical Poets
Sologub
Annensky
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Voloshin
Blok
Bely
Minor Symbolists
“Stylizators”
Khodasevich
RemizovPoetry after 1910Gumilev and the poets’ guild
Anna Akhmatova
Mandelstam
Severyanin
Feminine poetry
“Peasant poets” and imaginists
The rise of futurism
Mayakovsky
PasternakEditor's Postscript