Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917 /
In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery 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. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonica...
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| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Ithaca, NY :
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:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- 1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground
- 2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside
- 3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others)
- 4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N
- 5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste
- 6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans
- 7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces
- 8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia?
- 9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
- 10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness
- 11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality
- 12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index