 | A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition Subjects: Lermontov Mikhail IUr’evich 1814-1841 -- Criticism and interpretation; Romanticism -- Russia; Lermontov Mikhail Iur’evich 1814-1841. Geroi nashego vremeni; A Fallen Idol is Still a God demonstrates how the works of the seminal nineteenth-century Russian author Mikhail Lermontov reflect the cultural transition out of Romanticism and the dynamics of cultural transition itself. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College; she is also Chair of the Department of Russian and Co-chair of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Program in Comparative Literature. She is author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev's Poetics of Secular Salvation (1992), editor of The Essential Turgenev (1994), and coeditor of Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature (1995). |
