City folk and country folk /
Khvoshchinskai︠a︡, Sofʹi︠a︡ Dmitrievna, 1828-1865,
City folk and country folk / Sofia Khvoshchinskaya ; translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. - 1 online resource (xxxiii, 234 pages) - Russian library . - Russian library (Columbia University. Press) .
Includes bibliographical references.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Notes on the Translation -- Part I. City Folk and Country Folk -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- PART II. City Folk and Country Folk -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 Hoogenboom, Hilde --
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary clichés of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines created by Khvoshchinskaya's male peers, especially Ivan Turgenev, seventeen-year-old Olenka ultimately helps her mother overcome a sense of duty to her "betters" and leads the two to triumph over the urbanites' financial, amorous, and matrimonial machinations. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and her writer sisters closely mirror Britain's Brontës, yet Khvoshchinskaya's work contains more of Jane Austen's wit and social repartee, as well as an intellectual engagement reminiscent of Elizabeth Gaskell's condition-of-England novels. Written by a woman under a male pseudonym, this brilliant and entertaining exploration of gender dynamics on a post-emancipation Russian estate offers a fresh and necessary point of comparison with the better-known classics of nineteenth-century world literature.
9780231544504 (electronic bk.) 0231544502 (electronic bk.) (cloth) 023118302X 9780231183024 9780231183031 (softcover : acid-free paper) 0231183038
22573/ctt1tk8p15 JSTOR 40E42F96-9DBD-4F90-913E-C3FD91801A42 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016059922
1800-1899
Country life--History--Russia--19th century--Fiction.
Gentry--Russia--Fiction.
FICTION--Literary.
Country life.
Gentry.
Russia.
Electronic books.
Novels.
Fiction.
History.
Novels.
Romans.
PG3447.V47
891.73/3
City folk and country folk / Sofia Khvoshchinskaya ; translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. - 1 online resource (xxxiii, 234 pages) - Russian library . - Russian library (Columbia University. Press) .
Includes bibliographical references.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Notes on the Translation -- Part I. City Folk and Country Folk -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- PART II. City Folk and Country Folk -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 Hoogenboom, Hilde --
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary clichés of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines created by Khvoshchinskaya's male peers, especially Ivan Turgenev, seventeen-year-old Olenka ultimately helps her mother overcome a sense of duty to her "betters" and leads the two to triumph over the urbanites' financial, amorous, and matrimonial machinations. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and her writer sisters closely mirror Britain's Brontës, yet Khvoshchinskaya's work contains more of Jane Austen's wit and social repartee, as well as an intellectual engagement reminiscent of Elizabeth Gaskell's condition-of-England novels. Written by a woman under a male pseudonym, this brilliant and entertaining exploration of gender dynamics on a post-emancipation Russian estate offers a fresh and necessary point of comparison with the better-known classics of nineteenth-century world literature.
9780231544504 (electronic bk.) 0231544502 (electronic bk.) (cloth) 023118302X 9780231183024 9780231183031 (softcover : acid-free paper) 0231183038
22573/ctt1tk8p15 JSTOR 40E42F96-9DBD-4F90-913E-C3FD91801A42 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016059922
1800-1899
Country life--History--Russia--19th century--Fiction.
Gentry--Russia--Fiction.
FICTION--Literary.
Country life.
Gentry.
Russia.
Electronic books.
Novels.
Fiction.
History.
Novels.
Romans.
PG3447.V47
891.73/3