Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Pushkin, 'The Captive of the Caucasus,' and Russia's Entry into History -- 2 The Poetry of Empire: 'The Fountain of Bakhchisarai' and 'The Gypsies' -- 3 Centring the Periphery: Eugene Onegin, 'Onegin's Journey,' and 'A Journey to Arzrum' -- 4 The Future of Russia in the Mirror of the Caspian: Hybridity and Narodnost' in Ammalat-bek and A Hero of Our Time -- 5 Tolstoy on the Margins -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Aleksandr Pushkin's 'The Captive of the Caucasus' - A Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Writing at Russia's Borderupends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature.