Mapping St. Petersburg : imperial text and cityshape / Julie A. Buckler
2005, First Edition. Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press. First edition, first printing. Good cloth copy in a very good, dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Stains to cloth boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #457811
ISBN: 0691113491
Physical description; 364 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-353) and index. Contents; Petersburg eclecticism, part I : city as text -- Petersburg eclecticism, part II : literary form and cityshape -- Armchair traveling : Russian literary guides to St. Petersburg -- Stories in common : urban legends in St. Petersburg -- Literary centers and margins : palaces, dachas, slums, and industrial outskirts -- Meeting in the middle : provincial visitors to St. Petersburg -- The city's memory : public graveyards and textual repositories -- Conclusion : timely remembering and the tricentennial celebration. Subjects; Intellectual life. Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. Saint Petersburg (Russia) Intellectual life. Saint Petersburg (Russia) In literature.
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