Acknowledgements Map 1. Introduction 2. The poet and terra incognita 3. Imaginative geography 4. Sentimental pilgrims 5. The national stake in Asia 6. The Pushkinian mountaineer 7. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky's interchange with the tribesman 8. Early Lermontov and oriental machismo 9. Little orientalizers 10. Feminizing the Caucasus 11. Georgia as an oriental woman 12. The anguished poet in uniform 13. Tolstoy's revolt against romanticism 14. Post-war appropriation of romanticism 15. Tolstoy's confessional indictment 16. Concluding observations Notes Bibliography Index.
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