Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels

Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels rewrites the history of nineteenth-century Russian novels. Hilde Hoogenboom examines how Russians created a new literature against substantial odds: 90 per cent of novels published in Russia through the 1850s were foreign.Using data from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century catalogues, Hoogenboom visualizes readers large appetite for translated sentim...