How Russia learned to write : literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reyfman, Irina (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Series:	Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies.
Subjects:	Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, > 1799-1837 > Criticism and interpretation. Russian literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Russian literature > 18th century > Social aspects. Russian literature > 19th century > Social aspects. Nobility > Russia. Literature and state > Russia. Authors, Russian > 18th century. Authors, Russian > 19th century. Russia > History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Russian writers and state service, 1750s-1850s
To serve or to write? : Noble writers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centures
Pushkin as a bureaucrat, courtier, and writer
The hierarchy of ranks according to Gogol
Poets in the military : Denis Davydov, Aleksandr Polezhaev, and Mikhail Lermontov
Service ranks in Dostoevsky's life and fiction
Conclusion : Beyond rank
Appendix : The table of ranks.