Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments and Note on the Text xi
5. One. Introduction: Cultural Transition and Its Quandaries 1
6. Two. Romanticism and Its Twilight in Western Europe and Russia 22
7. Three The Ambivalence of Influence: Lermontov’s “Not-Byronism” 59
8. Four. The Attenuation of Romantic Evil: A Demon Undone 84
9. Five. Ideals to Ideology: Unmasking Masquerade 111
10. Six. Post-Romantic Anomie I: A Hero of Our Time and Its Hero 136
11. Seven. Post-Romantic Anomie II: The “Post-” Scripts of A Hero of Our Time 180
12. Eight. Conclusion: Lermontov’s Last Words 205
13. Notes 221
14. Selected Bibliography 265
15. Index 279