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Life is elsewhere : symbolic geography in the Russian provinces, 1800-1917
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Life is elsewhere : symbolic geography in the Russian provinces, 1800-1917 / Anne Lounsbery.
ISBN
9781501747915
1501747916
9781501747922
1501747924
9781501747939
9781501747946
Publication
Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
x, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Author shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"--a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Lounsbery, Anne. Life is elsewhere Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 26, 2019
Series
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Geography, history, trope : facts on the ground
Before the provinces : pastoral and anti-pastoral in Pushkin's countryside inventing provincial backwardness, or, "Everything is barbarous and horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and others)
"This is Paris itself!" : Gogol in the town of N
"I do beg of you, wait, and compare!" : Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste
Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans
Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces
Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia?
Centering and decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
"Everything here is accidental" : Chekhov's geography of meaninglessness
In the end : Shchedrin, Sologub, and terminal provinciality
Conclusion : the provinces in the twentieth century.
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