Life is elsewhere : symbolic geography in the Russian provinces, 1800-1917 / Anne Lounsbery.
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TextSeries: NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studiesPublisher: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (x, 344 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781501747946
- 1501747940
- 9781501747939
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- Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Country life in literature
- Regionalism in literature
- Country life -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
- Regionalism -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
- Vie rurale dans la littérature
- Littérature régionale
- Régionalisme -- Aspect social -- Russie -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Country life
- Country life in literature
- Regionalism in literature
- Regionalism -- Social aspects
- Russian literature
- Russia
- 1800-1899
- 891.70039372 23
- PG2987.C68 L68 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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