"It is written in a lively and stimulating manner...and displays a range to which few of Dr. Kelly's peers in the field of Russian scholarship are equal."--Dr. Philip Cavendish

PREFACE; 1. Testament; 2. 'I Have Raised Myself a Monument': Writers Memorials, Writer Cults; 3. 'Tidings of Me Will Go Out over All Great Rus': Pushkin and the Russian Literary Canon; 4. 'I Shall be Famous as long as Another Poet Lives'; 5. 'Awakening Noble Feelings with My Lyre': Russian Writers as 'Masters of Minds'; 6. 'And don't Dispute with Fools': Male and Female Literary Roles from the Salon to the Soyuz pisatele (Union of Writers); 7. 'Every Tribe and Every Tongue Shall Name Me': Russian Literature and 'Prinitive Culture'; 8. 'O Muse, be Obedient to the Command of God': Writing and the Spiritual and Material Worlds; LIST OF FURTHER READING