Writing the Time of Troubles : : False Dmitry in Russian Literature / / Marcia A. Morris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Morris, Marcia A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Unknown Nineteenth Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Names, and Abbreviations --; Introduction: Recurrence, Transference, and Dmitry --; Chapter 1. Prelude --; Chapter 2. Two Visions of Tyranny: The Late Eighteenth Century --; Chapter 3. Verbal Self-Fashioning: The Early Nineteenth Century --; Chapter 4. Two Visions of Reform: 1866 --; Chapter 5. Contingent Self-Fashioning: The Fin de Siècle --; Dmitry: Re-resurrection and Conclusions --; Sources Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618118646; 9783110688184
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618118646
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marcia A. Morris.

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia's doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.