04138nam a22004097a 4500 45084 BD-DhAAL 20251118160235.0 251118t2025 onca b 001 0 eng d 9781487500528 (hardcover) 9781487500528 (cloth) 9781487511234 (e-pub) 9781487511227 (pdf) BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL 891.73009 23 Hoogenboom, Hilde, author. 59800 Noble sentiments and the rise of Russian novels : a European literary history / Hilde Hoogenboom. Noble sentiments and the rise of Russian novels Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025. xiii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. European and Russian Sentimentalism -- Novels and Readers -- Karamzin Translates the Comtesse de Genlis -- Education in Translation: Zhukovsky, Elagina, and Zontag -- Maria Fedorovna and Her Institutes for Noblewomen -- Pushkin and Sophie Cottin's "Mediocre" Novel -- George Sand in Russia: Tur, Turgenev, and Goncharov -- In Defence of Duty: Khvoshchinskaia and Dostoevsky -- Tolstaya vs. Tolstoy. Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History is the first comprehensive study of the overwhelming influence of European bestsellers in translation on nineteenth-century Russian literature, and the first to examine women and men as nobles and equals in the creation of a new literature against substantial odds: 90% of novels in Russia through the 1850s were foreign. Together, they adapted the fundamental European conversation - on a sentimental moral education in duty to the greater good - to their search for a meaningful life of purpose as hereditary nobles, compelled to serve in the military and civil service in exchange for the right to own land with serfs. This new history of well-integrated Russian and European literary markets is evident in what everyone everywhere was reading. Using data from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century book and periodical catalogues in Russia, Germany, France, and Britain, Hoogenboom visualizes, in 14 tables and 22 graphs, readers' large appetite for translated sentimental and sentimental realist novels, many by such women as Madame de Genlis, Sophie Cottin, and George Sand, and the literary output of nine exceptionally well-read Russians, including Pushkin, Evgenia Tur, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Readers' tastes show that sentimentalism's debate over virtue proved tenacious because, contrary to stereotypes of the predictable triumph of good over evil, sentimentalism was an opportunistic chameleon that allowed writers to both challenge and reaffirm the social order. Responsible for Russia's empire, writers questioned whether cultivating social duties could restrain violence in a revolutionary epoch." Provided by publisher. ENH Sabreena Ahmed, PhD Associate Professor Department of English and Humanities BRAC University Course Name : N/A Trim Education 45084 Russian fiction 19th century European influences. 59852 Russian fiction 19th century History and criticism. 59853 European literature Appreciation Russia History 19th century. 59854 European literature 19th century Translations into Russian. 59855 Best sellers Europe History 19th century. 59856 Comparative literature Russian and European. 59857 Sentimentalism in literature. 59858 Realism in literature. 59859 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks BK ddc 47639 47639 0 0 ddc 0 891_730090000000000_HOO 0 78509 BRACUL BRACUL NEW 2025-11-04 Trim Education 12000.00 3 891.73009 HOO 3010045084 2026-04-09 2026-04-05 1 24000.00 2025-11-04 BK Requisitioned by Sabreena Ahmed (Associate Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University).