Author: Baehr, Stephen Lessing
Title: The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xiii,308 pp. Minor rubbing, Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The "Language" of Paradise: A Typological Introduction; Sacred into Secular; In the Re-beginning; The Happy Garden State; Paradise Within:The Masonic Component of the Paradise Myth; The Rise of the Russian Utopia; Epilogue: Toward the Iron Age; Appendivces: Definitional Details of the Paradise Myth; Utopian Section of Pavel L'vov's 'The Russian Pamela'.

Keywords: Russian Literature, Tsarist Russia, Eighteenth Century, Literary Criticism, Social History, Utopia Utopian, Freemason Masonic, Freemasonry, Utopias Paradise