"In "Mapping St. Petersburg," Julie Buckler rewrites the
exclusionary ideology of classicism that has dominated pictorial
and verbal discourses on Petersburg from Pushkin's 'Bronze
Horseman' to the Petersburg Tricentenary of 2003. Meticulously
researched and illustrated, deftly theorized, and vividly written,
the book presents an exhilaratingly concrete study of Petersburg
urban design and architectural history, focusing on the many
'eclectic' rental buildings, markets, cemeteries, and places of
amusement that constitute a physical testimony to the aesthetic
tastes and mixed social experience inscribed in them. Buckler
explores the rich array of lowbrow and middlebrow writing on
Petersburg that furnishes the forgotten matrix of urban folklore on
which the Russian realist novel drew. Her intellectual mission: to
restore to visibility the elided 'middle' of Russian society and
taste that has been so carefully expunged from the cultural record
and has only recently become a focus of interest for Russian
imperial historians and students of cityscape as embodied
myth."--Monika Greenleaf, Stanford University
"This is a fascinating book. It is beautifully written and
contains countless original details, insights, and observations.
The rich array of materials offers a great deal of new information
about and analysis of the cultural history of St. Petersburg.
Buckler's approach represents a major contribution not only to
Russian studies and comparative literature but also to cultural
geography, history, and urban anthropology."--Alexei Yurchak,
University of California, Berkeley
"This strong, timely book celebrates the three-hundredth
anniversary of St. Petersburg in a manner that isgenuinely--not
just rhetorically--interdisciplinary. In this exotic ex-centric
city, with its autoreferential literary legacy and its
'anti-Moscow' mystique, the spatial and verbal arts came together
concretely in a monolithic myth of violent beginnings and
apocalyptic ends. So monolithic was this myth that it cultivated
its own areas of blindness. Buckler brings these blind spots back
into the light."--Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
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