Life is elsewhere : symbolic geography in the Russian provinces, 1800-1917 / Anne Lounsbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lounsbery, Anne, author.

Series:

NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Country life in literature.

Regionalism in literature.

Country life--Russia--History--19th century.

Country life.

Regionalism--Social aspects--Russia--History--19th century.

Regionalism.

Regionalism--Social aspects.

History.

Russia (Federation).

Russia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 344 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lounsbery, Anne. Life is elsewhere

ISBN:

9781501747915

1501747916

9781501747922

1501747924

OCLC:

1096221049