Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives ... Internationales d'Histoire des Idees) - Tapa dura

Offord, Derek

 
9781402039089: Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives ... Internationales d'Histoire des Idees)
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ISBN 10: 1402039085 ISBN 13: 9781402039089
Editorial: Springer, 2006

Sinopsis

Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.

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Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.

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Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1402039085
ISBN 13 
9781402039089
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Número de páginas
316
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9789048169948: Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) [Idioma Inglés]

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