Plotting History

The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age

By: Dan Ungurianu

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Hardcover | 21 January 2011

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More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.
Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin s People s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed.

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Second Place, Biography, Society of Midland Authors
Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambough Award, the State Historical Society of Iowa

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This is a book of the first importance. The spade work that Ungurianu has done on hundreds of Russian historical novels allows him to describe trends and developments of the genre with unprecedented authority. - Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Yale University

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Literary Studies from 1900 to Current History Regional & National History European History Biographies & True Stories Biographies

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and the Anxiety of Genre	p. 3
An Overview of the Romantic Era	p. 13
Fact and Fiction in the Romantic Novel	p. 40
The Changing and the Unchanged	p. 55
Masterpieces in Context: Taras Bulba and The Captain's Daughter	p. 76
Tolstoy's "Book" and a New Kind of Historical Novel	p. 97
The Age of Positivism: "Historiographie Romancee"	p. 125
The End of Progress: Facets of the Modernist Paradigm	p. 149
In Lieu of a Conclusion: A Tale of Three Cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersburg in the Russian Historical Novel	p. 189
Chronological and Thematic Distribution of Works	p. 209
Annotated List of Authors	p. 263
Notes	p. 289
Works Cited	p. 309
Index	p. 325
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