Reading Russian Fortunes
Subtitle: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780521024792
Subjects: Cultural studies; Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; Social history; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Russia; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Fortune-telling--Social aspects--Russia (Fede; Fortune-telling--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)--History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Social Science / Gender Studies; Gender Studies
First sentence: From the latter part of the eighteenth century until the Revolution, bookshops, market traders, and colporteurs all sold books and pamphlets on fortune-telling.