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Author Layton, Susan, author

Title Contested Russian tourism : cosmopolitanism, nation, and empire in the nineteenth century / Susan Layton
Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Imperial encounters in Russian history
Imperial encounters in Russian history.
Contents Becoming tourists. Russia's enlightenment travel model: Karamzin, the English, and Italy ; The romantic vacation mentality ; Nationalist worries about tourism: Pogodin, Belinsky, Zagoskin ; Vacationing in the Caucasus: authenticity and the sophisticate/provincial divide -- Shocks of modernization. Inundating the West after the Crimean War ; Tourist angst: aesthetics, moral imagination, and politics in Tolstoy's Lucerne ; Cosmopolitans, the crowd, and radical killjoys: Turgenev, other writers, and the critics ; Dostoevsky's anti-cosmopolitan animus toward tourism -- Embourgeoisement and its enemies. The rising tourist tide: foreign travel from winter notes to Anna Karenina ; Anna Karenina and the tourist passion for Italy ; Tatars and the tourist boom in the Crimea: Markov's Sketches of the Crimea and other writings ; Tourist decadence at the fin-de-siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and other writers
Summary "This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism's entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. For typically middle-class Russians daunted by the cultural riches of the West, vacationing in the North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Crimea afforded the compensatory opportunity to play colonizer kings and queens in "Asia." Drawing on Anna Karenina and other literary classics, travel writing, journalism, and guidebooks, the investigation engages with current debates in cosmopolitan studies, including the fuzzy paradigm of "colonial cosmopolitanism.""-- Provided by publisher
Analysis 19th century
Anna Karenina
Caucasus
Crimea
Russian literature
Winter Notes
art appreciation
cosmopolitanism
empire
nineteenth century
social history
tourism
tourists
travel
vacation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Russians -- Travel -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century
Heritage tourism -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century
Cosmopolitanism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Tourism in literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, Russian -- 19th century -- History and criticism
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Heritage tourism
Russian literature
Russians -- Travel
Tourism in literature
Travelers' writings, Russian
Russia
Western Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021004460
ISBN 1644694220
9781644694213
1644694212
9781644694220