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Introduction
The Momentum of Byronism
Terms of engagement

Turgenev: biography
Early upbringing
Early influences
Developing lifestyle
Exile, repatriation, death

Turgenev and political turbulence
Slavophiles and Westernizers
Forces of negation

Byronic influence through others
Pushkin and Lermontov
Anarchists and early nihilists

Fathers and Sons: from the source
Bazarov as nihilist?
Bazarov as Romantic hero?

Conclusion
Bazarov as Byronic negator and idealist
Bibliography

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Tracing Byron's Influence on the Creation and Development of the Nihilist Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

CONCLUSION

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