Refining Russia - Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Hardcover)

Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature (how-to books such as etiquette manuals and brochures on hygiene) in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural meaning. It shows how books of this kind reflected changing attitudes to national identity, to gender roles, and to daily life, and how they recorded shifting views of the masses and their place in Russian society. An absorbing and original exercise in 'history of the book', it is also a major contribution to the understanding of Russia's relationship with the West, and of the cultural world inhabited by the Russian intelligentsia.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	October 2001
Authors:	Catriona Kelly
Dimensions:	242 x 163 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	484
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-815987-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-19-815987-0
Barcode:	9780198159872

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