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Reclaiming a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, this volume offers a critical study of four of his compact plays, later known as ""The Little Tragedies"". It examines their historical roots and connective themes, offers close readings and tracks the transformation of the works into other genres.

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life - in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlour entertainments. Blending literary analysis with social and cultural history, this book shows how poetry lovers of the period became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning.

In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time.