LEADER 03983oam 22006372 450 001 9910827726103321 005 20231120233332.0 010 $a94-012-0271-0 010 $a1-4237-9181-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401202718 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462452 035 $a(EBL)556691 035 $a(OCoLC)70878871 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12017340 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10102133 035 $a(PQKB)10549168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556691 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556691 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380416 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401202718 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462452 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBreaking ground $etravel and national culture in Russia from Peter I to the era of Pushkin /$fSara Dickinson 210 1$aLeiden;$aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a90-420-1949-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Fonvizin and the Russian Tour of Western Europe (1689-1789) -- 2. Radishchev and Domestic Description (1767-97) -- 3. Karamzin and the Internal Account (1791-1812) -- 4. Returning to Europe (1812-25) -- 5. Reimagining Foreign and Domestic Space (1810-50) -- 6. In Conclusion: On Firm Ground -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Names and Texts. 330 $aBreaking Ground examines travel writing's contribution to the development of a Russian national culture from roughly 1700 to 1850, as Russia struggled to define itself against Western Europe. Russian examples of literary travel writing began with imitative descriptions of grand tours abroad, but progressive familiarity with the West and with its literary forms gradually enabled writers to find other ways of describing the experiences of Russians en route. Blending foreign and native cultural influences, writers responded to the pressures of the age-to Catherine II, Napoleon, and Nicholas I, for example-both by turning "inward" to focus on domestic touring and by rewriting their relationship to the West. This book tracks the evolution of literary travel writing in this period of its unprecedented popularity and demonstrates how the expression of national identity, the discovery of a national culture, and conceptions of place-both Russian and Western European-were among its primary achievements. These elements also constitute travel writing's chief legacy to prose fiction, "breaking ground" for the later masterpieces of writers such as Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. For literary scholars, historians, and other educated readers with interests in Russian culture, travel writing, comparative literature, and national identity. 410 0$aStudies in Slavic Literature and Poetics ;$v45. 517 3 $aTravel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin 606 $aRussian prose literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aTravelers' writings, Russian$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aRussian prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, Russian$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.709 700 $aDickinson$b Sara$01602420 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827726103321 996 $aBreaking ground$93926397 997 $aUNINA