Contested Russian Tourism : : Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century / / Susan Layton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Layton, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism’s entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift fr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Illustrations
• Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part One Becoming Tourists
• 1 Russia’s Enlightenment Travel Model: Karamzin, the English, and Italy
• 2 The Romantic Vacation Mentality
• 3 Nationalist Worries about Tourism: Pogodin, Belinsky, Zagoskin
• 4 Vacationing in the Caucasus: Authenticity and the Sophisticate/Provincial Divide
• Part Two Shocks of Modernization
• 5 Inundating the West after the Crimean War
• 6 Tourist Angst: Aesthetics, Moral Imagination, and Politics in Tolstoy’s Lucerne
• 7 Cosmopolitans, the Crowd, and Radical Killjoys: Turgenev, Other Writers, and the Critics
• 8 Dostoevsky’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Animus toward Tourism
• Part Three Embourgeoisement and Its Enemies
• 9 The Rising Tourist Tide: Foreign Travel from Winter Notes to Anna Karenina
• 10 Anna Karenina and the Tourist Passion for Italy
• 11 Tatars and the Tourist Boom in the Crimea: Markov’s Sketches of the Crimea and Other Writings
• 12 Tourist Decadence at the Fin de Siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and Other Writers
• Concluding Observations
• Bibliography
• Index