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The diversity of topics under consideration-such as the culture of dance in Eugene Onegin, the seriality of Dostoevsky's novels, the reader's perception of Anna Karenina-are united by an approach defined by a detailed analysis of the texts combined with a study of the sociocultural context in which these great works were created, published, censored and conceptualized.

In the field of Russian literary studies, there is surprisingly little comprehensive, high-quality discussion of independent genres and their effect on the creativity of an era. This important text on the quasi-public "friendly letter" of nineteenth-century Russia addresses this deficiency.In The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin, Todd examines the tradition of familiar letter writing that developed in the early 1800s a...