ABSTRACT

Brown, Julia Prewitt, Jane Austen's Novels: Social Change and Literary Form, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979

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Butler, Marilyn, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

Johnson, Claudia L., Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Kelly, Gary, Women, Writing, and Revolution, I790-I827, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Poovey, Mary, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Roberts, Warren E., Jane Austen and the French Revolution, London: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979

Tanner, Tony, Jane Austen, London: Macmillan, and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian literature enjoyed a renewal led by poets and dramatists. Groups with names like "Symbolists," "Futurists," and "Acmeists" developed new techniques and proposed new principles of art with astonishing rapidity. While these artists hardly agreed on a single method or goal for literary creation, they generally concurred in demanding a rethinking of the nature of art, perception, and tradition. Andrei Belyi's Petersburg was the first novel to register this cry successfully.