Reading Russian fortunes
Subtitle: print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765
By: Faith Wigzell.
Series: Cambridge studies in Russian literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Fortune-telling -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- History.; Fortune-telling -- Publishing -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
Description: "Reading Russian fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.