Introduction -- A provincial world -- Society -- The village -- Estate management -- Sociability, charity, and leisure -- Illness, grief and death -- Domesticity and motherhood -- The education of Aleksei -- Education for all -- The landscape of ideas
Summary
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012)
