Contents

pp ix-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

1 - Introduction

pp 1-8

PART I - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

pp 9-10

2 - The creation of journals and the profession of letters in the eighteenth century

pp 11-34

PART 2 - EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

pp 35-36

3 - Periodicals in literary life of the early nineteenth century

pp 37-63

4 - N. A. Polevoi's Moscow Telegraph and the journal wars of 1825–1834

pp 64-88

PART 3 - MID NINETEENTH CENTURY

pp 89-90

5 - Survey of Russian journals, 1840–1880

pp 91-116

6 - Belinsky the journalist and Russian literature

pp 117-128

7 - The Messenger of Europe

pp 129-149

8 - Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer, journal of the 1870s

pp 150-168

PART 4 - SILVER AGE

pp 169-170

9 - Rise and decline of the “literary” journal: 1880–1917

pp 171-196

10 - The literary content of The World of Art

pp 197-206

11 - Northern Herald: from traditional thick journal to forerunner of the avant-garde

pp 207-227

12 - Chekhov and the journals of his time

pp 228-245

List of titles of journals and almanacs

pp 246-249

Select bibliography

pp 250-257

Index

pp 258-265

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

pp 266-269