Mapping St. Petersburg : : Imperial Text and Cityshape /

Mapping St. Petersburg : : Imperial Text and Cityshape / / Julie A. Buckler.

Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast unch...

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Buckler, Julie A.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Petersburg Eclecticism, Part I: City as Text
  • Chapter Two. Petersburg Eclecticism, Part II: Literary Form and Cityshape
  • Chapter Three. Armchair Traveling: Russian Literary Guides to St. Petersburg
  • Chapter Four. Stories in Common: Urban Legends in St. Petersburg
  • Chapter Five. Literary Centers and Margins: Palaces, Dachas, Slums, and Industrial Outskirts
  • Chapter Six. Meeting in the Middle: Provincial Visitors to St. Petersburg
  • Chapter Seven. The City's Memory: Public Graveyards and Textual Repositories
  • Conclusion. Timely Remembering and the Tricentennial Celebration
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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