Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and the Anxiety of Genre -- 1. An Overview of the Romantic Era -- 2. Fact and Fiction in the Romantic Novel -- 3. The Changing and the Unchanged -- 4. Masterpieces in Context: Taras Bulba and The Captain's Daughter -- 5. Tolstoy's "Book" and a New Kind of Historical Novel -- 6. The Age of Positivism: "Historiographie Romancée" -- 7. The End of Progress: Facets of the Modernist Paradigm -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: A Tale of Three Cities, or the Reincarnations of Saint Petersburg in the Russian Historical Novel -- Appendix A: Chronological and Thematic Distribution of Works -- Appendix B: Annotated List of Authors -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.