Awards

• Runner-up for Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures (United States).
• Runner-up for Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures 2020 (United States)

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Author:   Anne Lounsbery
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Northern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501747922

ISBN 10:   1501747924
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   15 November 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation 1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground 2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside 3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or ""Everything is Barbarous and Horrid"" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others) 4. ""This is Paris itself!"": Gogol in the Town of N 5. ""I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!"": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste 6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans 7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces 8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia? 9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 10. ""Everything Here is Accidental"": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness 11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality 12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

Lounsbery manages to seamlessly integrate consistently interesting textual analysis with philosophical and metaphysical perspectives on Russian culture. -- Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University, author of <I>Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia</I> Life is Elsewhere is that rare book that reveals an essential truth no one has noticed before. The Russian provinces, Russia's provincialism, and the entirety of the Russian cultural landscape will never look the same. -- Yuri Slezkine, University of California Berkeley, author of <I>The House of Government</I>

Author Information

Anne Lounsbery teaches Russian literature at New York University. She has published numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and is the author of Thin Culture, High Art.

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