This meager nature
Subtitle: landscape and national identity in Imperial Russia
By: Christopher Ely.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Landscape -- Russia -- History; Nationalism -- Russia -- History; Landscape painting, Russian; Nationalism and art -- Russia -- History; Landscape in literature; Russian literature -- History and criticism; Nationalism and literature -- Russia -- History
Description: "This Meager Nature is the first full-length study to trace the cultural construction of Russia's landscape during the nineteenth century, showing how artistic and literary representations of nature reflected and shaped Russians' ideas about themselves and their nation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Brown University, 1997) under title: Overgrown corners and boundless space.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Arcadia on the Steppe; title: 2 The Search for a Picturesque Russia; title: 3 Landscapes of Nationality and Nostalgia; title: 4 Outer Gloom and Inner Glory; title: 5 To Paint the Russian Landscape; title: 6 A Portrait of the Motherland; title: Conclusion: A Russian Sense of Place.