Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917 /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lounsbery, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Russian literature.
Regionalism > Social aspects.
Regionalism in literature.
Country life in literature.
Country life.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Regionalisme > Aspect social > Russie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature regionale.
Vie rurale dans la litterature.
Regionalism > Social aspects > Russia > History > 19th century.
Country life > Russia > History > 19th century.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Russia.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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