Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia

Author: Richard Stites

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 0300128185

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Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town and country in genre scenes of everyday life. Serf actors on loan from their masters brought naturalistic acting from provincial theaters to the imperial stages. Stites’s richly detailed book offers new perspectives on the origins of Russia’s nineteenth-century artistic prowess.

Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray
Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray

Author: Edgar F. Harden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-11-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1349140732

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These letters have been selected according to their ability to convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life, and their ability to represent highly characteristic verbal and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. In spite of his struggles, Thackeray articulates in his letters an exhuberance characteristic of one of the great enjoyers of life. Seventy five of his comical illustrations accompany the texts of these letters.

Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)
Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume I (1994)

Author: Edgar F. Harden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13: 1315445425

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First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents, Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes, and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts, and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources.