Writing History in Late Imperial Russia

Frances Nethercott is Reader in Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She is the author of Une rencontre philosophique: Bergson en Russie, 1907-1917 (1995), Russia's Plato: Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology, 1840-1930 (2000) and Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism (2007). She also serves on the editorial board of Studies in East European Thought and is a member of the international board of History of European Ideas.

• Introduction1. Between State Patronage and Oversight: Developments in History as a University Discipline2. The Scholar-Artist: Master Historians and their Literary Muses3. Style: The Literary Cadences of Russian Historical Narrative4. The Historian's Literary Toolbox: Portraiture5. Literary Evidence: Realist Aesthetics and Historical Enquiry6. Place: Excursion History and the Question of Literary Sites7. The Historian's Literary Compass: Modern Poets and Novelists8. Historical and Literary Historical Scholarship: A Hybrid Science?Epilogue: The Forgotten Legacy

The author of this exhaustively argued and heavily documented monograph … sets out to illustrate the 'literary interface' … of Russian historical scholarship in nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia, a task at which she succeeds admirably.