Nation Astray
Ingrid Anne Kleespies
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Hardcover. The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. This book traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of works by writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the discourse about national identity. For Russians of the nineteenth century national identity was anything but stable.
This rootlessness is at the core of A Nation Astray. Here, Ingrid Anne Kleespies traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875804613
SKU
V9780875804613
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About Ingrid Anne Kleespies
Ingrid Anne Kleespies is assistant professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida.
Reviews for Nation Astray
This monograph makes an important contribution to scholarship on classical Russian literature and thought.
Slavonic and East European Review
A Nation Astray shows that normative ideas of civilization, originating in Western Europe, put Russia in a difficult situation, from which the road and the nomad offered one, sometimes elusive, escape.
The Russian Review
Slavonic and East European Review
A Nation Astray shows that normative ideas of civilization, originating in Western Europe, put Russia in a difficult situation, from which the road and the nomad offered one, sometimes elusive, escape.
The Russian Review