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Escaping the straitjacket of conventional historiography, Writing History in Late Imperial Russia makes a subtle and original contribution to Russian intellectual history by exploring the relationship between history and literature in the work of three crucial generations of historians. * Simon Dixon, Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History, University College London, UK * This fascinating book investigates the deep interconnection between literary culture and historical enquiry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia. By carefully examining the writings of the most prominent Russian historians of this period, Frances Nethercott skillfully reveals what she defines as the literary impulse in Russian historical scholarship and thereby penetrates into the inner workings of the historian's craft, which usually remain hidden even from the most devoted admirers of historical research. In so doing, she opens up a new subject area in the growing corpus of studies on history as a profession and on the writing of history in modern Russia, and makes an important contribution to the field of cultural studies. * Vera Kaplan, The Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Tel Aviv University *

This fascinating book investigates the deep interconnection between literary culture and historical enquiry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia. By carefully examining the writings of the most prominent Russian historians of this period, Frances Nethercott skillfully reveals what she defines as the literary impulse in Russian historical scholarship and thereby penetrates into the inner workings of the historian's craft, which usually remain hidden even from the most devoted admirers of historical research. In so doing, she opens up a new subject area in the growing corpus of studies on history as a profession and on the writing of history in modern Russia, and makes an important contribution to the field of cultural studies. * Vera Kaplan, The Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Tel Aviv University *

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Frances Nethercott is Reader in Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She is the author of Une rencontre philosophique: Bergson en Russie, 1907-1917 (1995), Russia's Plato: Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology, 1840-1930 (2000) and Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism (2007). She also serves on the editorial board of Studies in East European Thought and is a member of the international board of History of European Ideas.

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