Writing History in Late Imperial Russia: Scholarship and the Literary Canon - Paperback
by Frances Nethercott (Author)
It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; rather, she argues, fiction, lyric poetry, and sometimes even the lives of artists, consistently and significantly shaped historical enquiry.
Grounding its analysis in the works of historians Timofei Granovskii, Vasilii Klyuchevskii, and Ivan Grevs, Writing History in Late Imperial Russia explores how Russian thinkers--being sensitive to the social, cultural, and psychological resonances of creative writing--drew on the literary canon as a valuable resource for understanding the past. The result is a novel and nuanced discussion of the influences of literature on the development of Russian historiography, which shines new light on late Imperial attitudes to historical investigation and considers the legacy of such historical practice on Russia today.Frances Nethercott is Reader in Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She is the author of Une rencontre philosophique: Bergson en Russie, 1907-1917 (1995), Russia's Plato: Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology, 1840-1930 (2000) and Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism (2007). She also serves on the editorial board of Studies in East European Thought and is a member of the international board of History of European Ideas.
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