Title Breaking ground : travel and national culture in Russia from Peter I to the era of Pushkin / Sara Dickinson

Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) Series Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 45 Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 45 Contents Fonvizin and the Russian tour of Western Europe (1689-1789) -- Radishchev and domestic description (1767-97) -- Karamzin and the internal account (1791-1812) -- Returning to Europe (1812-25) -- Reimagining foreign and domestic space (1810-50) Summary Breaking Ground examines travel writing's contribution to the development of a Russian national culture from roughly 1700 to 1850, as Russia struggled to define itself against Western Europe. Russian examples of literary travel writing began with imitative descriptions of grand tours abroad, but progressive familiarity with the West and with its literary forms gradually enabled writers to find other ways of describing the experiences of Russians en route. Blending foreign and native cultural influences, writers responded to the pressures of the age--to Catherine II, Napoleon, and Nicholas I, fo Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Fonvizin, D. I. (Denis Ivanovich), 1745-1792. Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1749-1802 Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826 SUBJECT Fonvizin, D. I. (Denis Ivanovich), 1745-1792 fast Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826 fast Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1749-1802 fast Subject Travel writing. Russian literature -- 18th century. Russian literature -- 19th century. Russians -- Travel LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union. Russian literature Russians -- Travel Travel writing Form Electronic book ISBN 9781423791812 1423791819

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