Contested Russian Tourism
Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism's entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. For typically middle-class Russians daunted by the cultural riches of the West, vacationing in the North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Crimea afforded the compensatory opportunity to play colonizer kings and queens in Asia. Drawing on Anna…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-64469-422-0
- EAN: 9781644694220
- Produktnummer: 35690429
- Verlag: Academic Studies Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 500 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Susan Layton is a research associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasian et centre-européen (CERCEC) in Paris. She is the author of Russian Literature and Empire. Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (1994, ebook 2011) and numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature.
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