![]() ![]() This thesis reveals the extent to which the conversation about nihilism in Russian culture was many-voiced and contradictory debate carried on not only on the pages of novels, articles in the “thick” journals, and newspapers, but also in everyday life and behavior, in fashion and linguistic usage, in personal interactions and in political trials. ![]() This study examines the genesis of the literary images of the nihilist “heroes of the time ” it also explicates the connections between these works and illustrates common influences upon writers. Most novels written during this era participated in the debate on nihilism and discussed the vitality and potential of the new “hero of the time,” the nihilist (or “new man”). This dissertation examines the development of the polemical Russian novel concerning the “hero of the time” during the 1860s-1870s when the problem of nihilism was literature’s main concern. ![]()
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