Refining Russia : advice literature, polite culture, and gender from Catherine to Yeltsin / Catriona Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Catriona.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Etiquette--Russia--History.

Etiquette.

Didactic literature, Russian--History and criticism.

Didactic literature, Russian.

History.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliv, 438 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English text with parallel English and Russian extracts.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature ("how-to" books such as etiquette manuals and brochures on hygiene) in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural meaning. An absorbing and original exercise in "history of the book," it is also a major contribution to the understanding of Russia's relationship with the West, and of the cultural world inhabited by the Russian intelligentsia.

Contents:

Educating Tat'yana, schooling Evgeny : propaganda for manners and moral education, 1760-1830

The beauties of Byt : household manuals, social status, and national identity, 1830-1880

Self-help and spending power : advice literature in late Imperial Russia

'The personal does not exist' : advising the early Soviet mass reader, 1917-1953

Negotiating consumerism : the dilemmas of behaviour literature, 1953-2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781423785774

1423785770

Publisher Number:

99987466621

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.