Contested russian tourism: cosmopolitanism, nation, and empire in the nineteenth century
Auteur :
Layton, Susan
Éditeur :
Academic Studies Press
ISBN :
9781644694206
Date de publication :
26 août 2021
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,5 cm
Format :
Laminated cover
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This literary, cultural history examines Russian tourism via the prism of cosmopolitanism, pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure of Western Europe. The study’s thematic axis sets daunting cultural riches of the West against the compensatory Russian pleasure of playing the “European†colonizer on vacation in “Asia.â€