03616nam 2200709 450 991079455100332120230117100852.01-64469-422-01-64469-421-210.1515/9781644694213(CKB)4100000011964254(MiAaPQ)EBC6645013(Au-PeEL)EBL6645013(OCoLC)1238128219(DE-B1597)577353(DE-B1597)9781644694213(PPN)261611038(EXLCZ)99410000001196425420230117d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContested Russian tourism cosmopolitanism, nation, and empire in the nineteenth century /Susan LaytonBoston :Academic Studies Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (478 pages)Imperial Encounters in Russian History1-64469-420-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.".Imperial encounters in Russian history.CosmopolitanismRussiaHistory19th centuryCosmopolitanism in literature19th century.Anna Karenina.Caucasus.Crimea.Russian literature.Winter Notes.art appreciation.cosmopolitanism.empire.nineteenth century.social history.tourism.tourists.travel.vacation.CosmopolitanismHistoryCosmopolitanism in literature.306Layton Susan1582525MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794551003321Contested Russian tourism3864993UNINA