The Space of the Book : : Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination / / Miranda Remnek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Remnek, Miranda,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 16 halftones; 10 tables

From the Enlightenment to the Internet age, reading practices in Russia have been shaped by factors such as artistic and cultural trends, economics, and state scrutiny. The Space of the Book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of salient topics in Russian print culture, in a volume that promises to become the leading introduction to current research in the field.This collection features illustrated essays by premier Russian historians, literature specialists, and innovative younger scholars on topics including the influence of commerce, diversifying readerships, education and rural libraries, reception theory, and censorship. Miranda Remnek begins each chapter with an introduction on digital applications. Skilfully connecting multidisciplinary sources along broad historical continuum, The Space of the Book will be a valuable resource as the study of Russian print culture takes on new directions in a digitized world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction / Remnek, Miranda -- 1. Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce / Bernstein, Lina -- 2. Dinner at Smirdin's: Forces in Russian Print Culture in the Early Reign of Nicholas I / Gutsche, George -- 3. The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s) / Peschio, Joseph / Pil'shchikov, Igor -- 4. The Archaeology of 'Backwardness' in Russia: Assessing the Adequacy of Libraries for Rural Audiences in Late Imperial Russia / Eklof, Ben -- 5. The Reading Culture of Russian Workers in the Early Twentieth Century (Evidence from Public Library Records) / Borodkin, Leonid / Chugunov, Evgeny -- 6. Reading between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Manuscript Books and Images with Print Cultures of Late Imperial Russia / Kain, Kevin M. -- 7. The Moral Self in Russia's Literary and Visual Cultures: The Late Imperial Era and Beyond / Brooks, Jeffrey -- 8. Books and Their Readers in Twentieth-Century Russia / Lovell, Stephen -- 9. Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing Practices and the Readers of Il'f and Petrov's Ostap Bender Novels / Fisher, Anne O. -- 10. Closing and Opening and Closing: Reflections on the Russian Media / Choldin, Marianna Tax -- Appendix: The Internet on the State of Mass Media in Russia -- Contributors -- Backmatter