Written in Blood: The Battles for Fortress Przemyśl in WWI. By Graydon A. Tunstall. Twentieth-Century Battles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xi, 386 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Plates. $45.00, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.291
Abstract: The treatment of Catholic religiosity among the Polish diaspora from the nineteenth century to the present is a much-welcome theme complementing Alvis’s narrative. It clearly distinguishes his work from accounts that tend to focus on… read more here.
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Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881. By Lynn Ellen Patyk. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xii, 349 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2018.349
Abstract: The Covetous Knight, Gogol ’́s Dead Souls and Dostoevskii’s “Mr Prokharchin.” It discusses the broader history of the depiction of the miser from antiquity to modern times, taking in Dante, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean de La… read more here.
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