| Description |
1 online resource (x, 344 pages). |
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text file |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Country life in literature.
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Country life in literature. |
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Regionalism in literature.
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Regionalism in literature. |
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Country life -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
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Country life. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Regionalism -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 19th century.
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Regionalism -- Social aspects. |
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Regionalism. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lounsbery, Anne. Life is elsewhere. Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501747915 (DLC) 2019023347 |
| ISBN |
9781501747946 (electronic book) |
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1501747940 (electronic book) |
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9781501747939 (electronic book) |
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1501747932 (electronic book) |
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9781501747915 (hardcover) |
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9781501747922 (paperback) |
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