Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Layton, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1644694204 ISBN 13 : 9781644694206

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2021

Synopsis

This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism’s entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. For typically middle-class Russians daunted by the cultural riches of the West, vacationing in the North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Crimea afforded the compensatory opportunity to play colonizer kings and queens in “Asia.” Drawing on Anna Karenina and other literary classics, travel writing, journalism, and guidebooks, the investigation engages with current debates in cosmopolitan studies, including the fuzzy paradigm of “colonial cosmopolitanism.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Layton is a research associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasian et centre-européen (CERCEC) in Paris. She is the author of Russian Literature and Empire. Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (1994, ebook 2011) and numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1644694204
• ISBN 13: 9781644694206
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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