Sovereign Fictions Acquisitions & collection development The First-Time Manager

The First-Time Manager

By showing families' complex and often unpredictable journeys in this maze

_x000D_Suffering is a defining reality of life

and Katherine Johnson

Sovereign Fictions Acquisitions & collection development The First-Time ManagerAn exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian