Life Is Elsewhere. Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917, Paperback/Anne Lounsbery

In Life Is Elsewhere , Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has... Publisher: Cornell University Press Author(s): Anne Lounsbery Illustration(s): 2 Maps Number of pages: 360 Collection: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Publication date: 2019 Dimensions: 229 x 242 x 19 Cover type: Paperback / softback