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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794551003321

Autore

Layton Susan

Titolo

Contested Russian tourism : cosmopolitanism, nation, and empire in the nineteenth century / / Susan Layton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-422-0

1-64469-421-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 pages)

Collana

Imperial Encounters in Russian History

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism - Russia - History - 19th century

Cosmopolitanism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This literary, cultural history examines Russian tourism via the prism of cosmopolitanism, pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety



about the allure of Western Europe. The study's thematic axis sets daunting cultural riches of the West against the compensatory Russian pleasure of playing the "European" colonizer on vacation in "Asia.".