Anne Lounsbery

Life Is Elsewhere

Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917

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Produktbeschreibung

In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"â a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has...

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Produktdetails

• NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 242mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781501747922
• ISBN-10: 1501747924
• Artikelnr.: 57576518

Autorenporträt

Anne Lounsbery

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground
2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's
Countryside
3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and
Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others)
4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N
5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and
Provincial Taste
6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans
7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces
8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia?
9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness
11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality
12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index