Alison Rowley

Open Letters

Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880-1922

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647060
• ISBN-10: 144264706X
• Artikelnr.: 38142905

Autorenporträt

Alison Rowley is a professor in the Department of History at Concordia University

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: More than "Wish You Were Here"
1. The Market for Picture Postcards in Russia
2. The Landscapes of Russian Imperialism
3. Gender and Celebrity Culture via the Lens of the Picture Postcard: The
Case of Vera Kholodnaia, the "Queen of the Russian Screen"
4. Bodies on Display: Romantic and Erotic Postcards in Fin-de-Siècle Russia
5. Monarchy and the Mundane: Picture Postcards and Images of the Romanovs
6. Beyond Patriotic Discourse: Picture Postcards and Russia’s First World
War
7. Picture Postcards and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1922
Epilogue: Picture Postcards across the Revolutionary Divide
Notes
Bibliography
Index