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Author Dickinson, Sara.

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

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 45
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 45.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.
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.
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Subject Fonvizin, D. I. (Denis Ivanovich), 1745-1792.
Fonvizin, D. I. (Denis Ivanovich), 1745-1792.
Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1749-1802.
Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1749-1802.
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826.
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
Russian literature -- 18th century.
Russian literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Russian literature -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Russians -- Travel.
Russians -- Travel.
Russians.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dickinson, Sara. Breaking ground. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9042019492 (OCoLC)69950730
ISBN 1423791819 (electronic book)
9781423791812 (electronic book)
9042019492
9789042019492