Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia, 1870s - 1917 Rituals of Academic Institutionalism

The turn of the 20th century was a decisive moment in the institutionalization of Russia's literary scholarship. This is the first book in the English language to provide an indepth analysis of the emergence of Russia's literary academia in the pre-Revolutionary era. In particular, Byford examines the rhetoric of self-representation of major academic establishments devoted to literary study, the canonization of exemplary literary historians and philologists, and attempts by Russian literary academics of this era to define their work as a distinct form of scholarship.Byford, Andy is the author of 'Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia, 1870s - 1917 Rituals of Academic Institutionalism', published 2007 under ISBN 9781904350910 and ISBN 1904350917.