Life Is Elsewhere
Subtitle: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781501747946
Subjects: Country life; Regionalism; Russian literature, history and criticism
Description: "Author shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"--a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow"--