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.¿
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.¿
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.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Becoming Tourists 1. Russiäs 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
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Becoming Tourists 1. Russiäs 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
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