Journeys to a Graveyard
Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing
(Sprache: Englisch)
Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual...
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Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. Bythis means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.
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- Acknowledgements- Note on dates, transliteration, names, references and translation
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary
- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys
- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller
- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands
- Botkin: Letters on Spain
- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy
- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of names and subjects
- Index of place-names
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Derek Offord
- 2006, 2005, 287 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 1402039085
- ISBN-13: 9781402039089
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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