The space of the book : print culture in the Russian social imagination / edited by Miranda Remnek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Remnek, Miranda, editor.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture series.

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Russia--History.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Soviet Union--History.

Books and reading--Russia (Federation)--History.

Russia--Intellectual life.

Russia.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Skilfully connecting multidisciplinary sources along broad historical continuum, The Space of the Book will be a valuable resource as the study of Russian print culture takes on new directions in a digitized world.

Contents:

Introduction / Miranda Remnek

1. Russian eighteenth-century popular enlightenment literature on commerce / Lina Bernstein

2. Dinner at Smirdin's: forces in Russian print culture in the early reign of Nicholas I / George Gutsche

3. The proliferation of elite readerships and circle poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s) / Joseph Peschio and Igor' Pil'shchikov

4. The archaeology of "backwardness" in Russia: assessing the adequacy of libraries for rural audiences in late Imperial Russia / Ben Eklof

5. The reading culture of Russian workers in the early twentieth century (evidence from public library records) / Leonid Borodkin and Evgeny Chugunov

6. Reading between the (confessional) lines: the intersection of Old Believer manuscript books and images with print cultures of late Imperial Russia / Kevin M. Kain

7. The moral self in Russia's literacy and visual cultures: the late imperial era and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks

8. Books and their readers in twentieth-century Russia / Stephen Lovell

9. Adapting paratextual theory to the Soviet context : publishing practices and the readers of Il'f and Petrov's Ostap Bender novels / Anne O. Fisher

10. Closing and opening and closing: reflections on the Russian media / Marianna Tax Choldin

Appendix. the internet on the state of mass media in Russia / Svetlana Stulova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781442686441

1442686448

OCLC:

923775075