Life is elsewhere : symbolic geography in the Russian provinces, 1800-1917 /
"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"--
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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Table of 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.