A nation astray : nomadism and national identity in Russian literature /

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The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kleespies, Ingrid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2012]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, > 1766-1826. > Pisʹma russkogo puteshestvennika.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881. > Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatlenii͡akh.
Chaadaev, P. I͡A. > (Petr I͡Akovlevich), > 1794-1856. > Lettres philosophiques.
Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, > 1812-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, > 1799-1837 > Criticism and interpretation.
Herzen, Aleksandr, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation.
Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, > 1812-1891
Herzen, Aleksandr, > 1812-1870
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, > 1799-1837
Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatlenii͡akh (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
Lettres philosophiques (Chaadaev, P. I͡A)
Pisʹma russkogo puteshestvennika (Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich)
1800-1899
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nomads in literature.
Travelers in literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Nomades dans la littérature.
Voyageurs dans la littérature.
Russes dans la littérature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature
Nomads in literature
Russian literature
Travelers in literature
Russian serfdom, strict social hierarchy, Russian Romanticism, nationhood and identity, Russian self-determination.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Tracing the topos of the eternal Russian traveler: Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler and Dostoevsky's Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
  • Chaadaev's Wayward Russia: capturing the trace of an errant history
  • A poet astray: Pushkin and the image of a nomadic wanderer
  • "A journey around the world by I. Oblomov": Goncharov's unlikely eternal Russian traveler
  • A radical at large: Alexander Herzen and the autobiography of a Russian wanderer.

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