The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. Sweeping in scope, the book covers a range of genres novels, stories, memoirs, travel notes, narrative poems, and personal letters ; it analyzes texts fictional and non-fictional, familiar and obscure, high-brow and popular, serious and light-hearted.
Proceeding in chronological order from the eighteenth century through the very end of the imperial period, Layton develops what might fairly be described as a comprehensive survey of Russian pre-Soviet primary texts about the experience and phenomenon of tourism. Despite the Tolstoyan anathema to the sybaritic traveller who can only appreciate culture as a commodity fetish, Layton singles out three writers who best conform to her more expansive notion of a tourist as an agent of cultural reciprocity: Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen, and Anton Chekhov.
Susan Layton provides a synthesizing narrative about the course of the nineteenth century seen through the lens of travel. The practice of, and debate over, tourism sheds new light on major literary and cultural debates, particularly between conservatives and radicals. Purchase options and add-ons. Report an issue with this product. Previous slide of product details.
Print length. Academic Studies Press. Publication date. August 10, See all details. Next slide of product details. She is the author of Russian Literature and Empire. Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy , ebook and numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature.
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