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1 online resource (x, 242 pages) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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Tracing the topos of the eternal Russian traveler: Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler and Dostoevsky's Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Chaadaev's Wayward Russia: capturing the trace of an errant history -- A poet astray: Pushkin and the image of a nomadic wanderer -- "A journey around the world by I. Oblomov": Goncharov's unlikely eternal Russian traveler -- A radical at large: Alexander Herzen and the autobiography of a Russian wanderer |
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The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the discourse about national identity. For Russians of the nineteenth century national identity was anything but stable.This rootlessness is at the core of A Nation Astray. Here, Ingrid Anne Kleespies traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of literary works by seminal writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Chaadaev, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Appealing to students of Russian Romanticism, nationhood, and identity, as well as general readers interested in exile and displacement as elements of the human condition, this interdisciplinary work illuminates the historical and philosophical underpinnings of a basic aspect of Russian self-determination: the nomadic constitution of the Russian nation |
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Russian serfdom, strict social hierarchy, Russian Romanticism, nationhood and identity, Russian self-determination |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) 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 |
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Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826. Pisʹma russkogo puteshestvennika.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatlenii︠a︡kh.
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Chaadaev, P. I︠A︡. (Petr I︠A︡kovlevich), 1794-1856. Lettres philosophiques.
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Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891 fast |
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Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870 fast |
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Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 fast |
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Zimnie zametki o letnikh vpechatlenii︠a︡kh (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor) fast |
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Lettres philosophiques (Chaadaev, P. I︠A︡) fast |
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Pisʹma russkogo puteshestvennika (Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich) fast |
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Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Nomads in literature.
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Travelers in literature.
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National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
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National characteristics, Russian, in literature
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Nomads in literature
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Russian literature
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Travelers in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012030637 |
| ISBN |
9781609090760 |
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1609090764 |
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9781501756689 |
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1501756680 |
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