Breaking ground : travel and national culture in Russia from Peter I to the era of Pushkin

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    • Dickinson, Sara

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Breaking ground : travel and national culture in Russia from Peter I to the era of Pushkin

Sara Dickinson

(Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, v. 45)

Rodopi, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index

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Breaking 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.

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Acknowledgments 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

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