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The Literary Travelogue

A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin

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  1. Reuel K. Wilson
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Evolution of the Travel Genre in Western Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages XIII-XIII
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    2. Some Historical Examples — The Eighteenth Century. Goethe and Moritz

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      Pages 1-7

    3. Sterne’s Sentimental Journey

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      Pages 8-16

    4. Demaistre’s Voyage Autour de ma Chambre

      • Reuel K. Wilson
      Pages 17-19

    5. Dupaty’s Lettres sur L’Italie

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      Pages 20-27

  3. The Travel Memoir in Russia I777–I836

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      Pages 29-29
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    2. Fonvizin’s Letters from Abroad

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      Pages 31-38

    3. Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

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      Pages 39-48

    4. Pushkin’s Journey from Moscow to Petersburg

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      Pages 49-55

    5. Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler

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      Pages 56-81

    6. The Epigones

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      Pages 82-97

    7. Pushkin’s Journey to Erzurum

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      Pages 98-121

    8. Conclusion

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      Pages 122-124

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 125-136
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About this book

The aim of this study is to trace the development of the literary travel memoir in Russia during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth. Having indicated the prove­ nances of this genre in Western Europe, I shall evaluate its role in Russian literary history. Because this study is not intended to be an historical survey of all significant travel works that appeared in Russia, I shall pass over such early pioneer travelers as the Abbot Daniil who visited Palestine at the beginning of the twelfth century and recorded for his countrymen detailed descriptions of the Holy places, or the merchant, Afanasij Nikitin, whose travel notes concerning a trip to India are preserved in a fifteenth century chronicle. The travel genre, which had become enormously popular in eight­ eenth century Western Europe,l was cleverly exploited by Fonvizin, Radishchev, and Karamzin to expound to the Russian reading public certain important notions on literary theory, on society (foreign and domestic), on themselves, and on nature. The travel genre - then as now a flexible instrument for transmitting, by means of diary-style narrative, information about distant, often exotic people and place- had been adapted by Sterne and others to themes having little relation to a conventional journey. The Russians were quick to grasp the genre's literary as well as its polemical possibilities, and influenced by Western models, they too used it to convey theoretical assertions on a variety of SUbjects.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Literary Travelogue

  • Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin

  • Authors: Reuel K. Wilson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1997-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1558-9Published: 28 February 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1997-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 136

  • Topics: Political Philosophy

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