Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-323) and index.

Introduction : fact, fiction, and the anxiety of genre -- An overvie w of the romantic era -- Fact and fiction in the romantic novel -- The changing and the unchanged -- Masterpieces in context : Taras bulba and The captain's daughter -- Tolstoy's "book" and a new kind of historica l novel -- The age of positivism : "Historiographie romancée" -- The e nd of progress : facets of the modernist paradigm -- In lieu of a concl usion : A tale of three cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersbu rg in the Russian historical novel.

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