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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
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