Strangers in a Strange Land : : occidentalist publics and orientalist geographies in nineteenth century Georgian imaginaries / / Paul Manning.

In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of "Europe," at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia a...

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Superior document:Cultural revolutions
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Place / Publishing House:Brighton, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Cultural revolutions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (346 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Europe started here
  • Languages of nature, culture, and civilization : Letters of a traveler
  • Imperial and colonial sublime : the aesthetics of infrastructures
  • Correspondence : "Georgians, that is, readers of Droeba"
  • Spies and journalists : aristocratic and intelligentsia publics
  • Writers and speakers : pseudonymous intelligentsia and anonymous people
  • Dialogic genres : conversations and feuilletons
  • Writing and life : fact and fairy tale
  • Fellow travelers : localism, occidentalism, and orientalism
  • Conclusion : a stranger from a strange land.