An ordinary marriage: the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia
Antonova, Katherine PickeringAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
Introduction -- A provincial world -- Society -- The village -- Estate management -- Sociability, charity, and leisure -- Illness, grief and death -- Domesticity and motherhood -- The education of Aleksei -- Education for all -- The landscape of ideas.
Chikhachev family.
Families
Gentry
Gentry
Marriage
Sex role
Women in real estate
Real estate management
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Family & Marriage