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Economies of Feeling : Russian Literature under Nicholas I / Jillian Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Jillian, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Russian literature and theory.
- Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Economics in literature.
- Ambition in literature.
- Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion.Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist Russia and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mad ambition
- Gogol's gift
- Dostoevsky's money
- The miser never dies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3546-9
- OCLC:
- 975236008
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