| Description |
1 online resource (x, 344 pages) |
| Series |
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies |
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NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Country life in literature.
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Regionalism in literature.
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Country life -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
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Regionalism -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Country life
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Country life in literature
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Regionalism in literature
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Regionalism -- Social aspects
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Russian literature
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019023348 |
| ISBN |
9781501747946 |
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1501747940 |
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9781501747939 |
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1501747932 |
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