Contested Russian Tourism
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-420-6 (ISBN)
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 Karenina and other literary classics, travel writing, journalism, and guidebooks, the investigation engages with current debates in cosmopolitan studies, including the fuzzy paradigm of "colonial cosmopolitanism.
Susan Layton is a research associate at the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien 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.
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Becoming Tourists
1. Russia's Enlightenment Travel Model: Karamzin, the English, and Italy
2. The Romantic Vacation Mentality
3. Nationalist Worries about Tourism: Pogodin, Belinsky, Zagoskin
4. Vacationing in the Caucasus: Authenticity and the Sophisticate/Provincial Divide
Part Two: Shocks of Modernization
5. Inundating the West after the Crimean War
6. Tourist Angst: Aesthetics, Moral Imagination, and Politics in Tolstoy's Lucerne
7. Cosmopolitans, the Crowd, and Radical Killjoys: Turgenev, Other Writers, and the Critics
8. Dostoevsky's Anti-Cosmopolitan Animus toward Tourism
Part Three: Embourgeoisement and Its Enemies
9. The Rising Tourist Tide: Foreign Travel from Winter Notes to Anna Karenina
10. Anna Karenina and the Tourist Passion for Italy
11. Tatars and the Tourist Boom in the Crimea: Markov's Sketches of the Crimea and Other Writings
12. Tourist Decadence at the Fin-de-Siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and Other Writers
Concluding Observations
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Imperial Encounters in Russian History |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Brighton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64469-420-4 / 1644694204 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64469-420-6 / 9781644694206 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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