Breaking ground : travel and national culture in Russia from Peter I to the era of Pushkin /

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Breaking Ground examines travel writing's contribution to the development of a Russian national culture from roughly 1700 to 1850, as Russia struggled to define itself against Western Europe. Russian examples of literary travel writing began with imitative descriptions of grand tours abroad, bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dickinson, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 45.
Subjects:
Fonvizin, D. I. > (Denis Ivanovich), > 1745-1792.
Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, > 1749-1802.
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, > 1766-1826.
Fonvizin, D. I. > (Denis Ivanovich), > 1745-1792
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, > 1766-1826
Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, > 1749-1802
1700-1899
Travel writing.
Russian literature > 18th century.
Russian literature > 19th century.
Russians > Travel.
Literature.
Voyage > Art d'écrire.
Littérature russe > 18e siècle.
Littérature russe > 19e siècle.
Russes > Voyages.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russian literature
Russians > Travel
Travel writing
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fonvizin and the Russian tour of Western Europe (1689-1789)
  • Radishchev and domestic description (1767-97)
  • Karamzin and the internal account (1791-1812)
  • Returning to Europe (1812-25)
  • Reimagining foreign and domestic space (1810-50).

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