Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography In The Russian Provinces, 1800-1917

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...

• | By (Author): Anne Lounsbery
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1501747924
• | ISBN-13: 9781501747922