Catriona Kelly

Refining Russia

Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It draws on a huge range of sources - memoirs, 'novelised conduct books' such as Anna Karenina, parody advice literature, letters, and reviews - to examine the broader significance of how-to books, and their relationship with daily life (byt) as construct and as lived reality. The result is a book that not only makes a major contribution to the study of popular culture, but also throws an unexpected and revealing light on Russian history more broadly.

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Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature ("how-to" books such as etiquette manuals and brochures on hygiene) in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural meaning. An absorbing and original exercise in "history of the book," it is also a major contribution to the understanding of Russia's relationship with the West, and of the cultural world inhabited by the Russian intelligentsia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159872
• ISBN-10: 0198159870
• Artikelnr.: 22435543

Autorenporträt

Catriona Kelly is Reader in Russian, New College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Note on Translations and Conventions
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1: Educating Tatyana, Schooling Energy: Propaganda for Manners and
Moral Education, 1760-1830
* 2: The Beauties of Byt: Household Manuals, Social Status, and
National Identity, 1830-1880
* 3: Self-Help and Spending Power: Advice Literature in Late Imperial
Russia
* 4: 'The Personal Does Not Exist': Advising the Early Soviet Mass
Reader, 1917-1953
* 5: Negotiating Consumerism: The Dilemmas of Behaviour Literature,
1953-2000
* Afterword
* Appendices
* Select Bibliography
* Index