Robert Reid

Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy

Acknowledgements Map 1. Introduction 2. The poet and terra incognita 3. Imaginative geography 4. Sentimental pilgrims 5. The national stake in Asia 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinskys interchange with the tribesman 8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo 9. Little orientalizers 10. Feminizing the Caucasus 11. Georgia as an oriental woman 12. The anguished poet in uniform 13. Tolstoys revolt against romanticism 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism 15. Tolstoys confessional indictment 16. Concluding observations Notes Bibliography Index.