The Space of the Book
by Remnek, MirandaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-04-09
Publisher(s): Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary
Skilfully connecting multidisciplinary sources along broad historical continuum, The Space of the Book will be a valuable resource as the study of Russian print culture takes on new directions in a digitized world.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | p. vii |
| Note on Transliteration | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce | p. 29 |
| Dinner at Smirdin's: Forces in Russian Print Culture in the Early Reign of Nicholas I | p. 54 |
| The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-l830s) | p. 82 |
| The Archaeology of 'Backwardness' in Russia: Assessing the Adequacy of Libraries for Rural Audiences in Late Imperial Russia | p. 108 |
| The Reading Culture of Russian Workers in the Early Twentieth Century (Evidence from Public Library Records) | p. 142 |
| Reading between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Manuscript Books and Images with Print Cultures of Late Imperial Russia | p. 165 |
| The Moral Self in Russia's Literary and Visual Cultures: The Late Imperial Era and Beyond | p. 201 |
| Books and Their Readers in Twentieth-Century Russia | p. 231 |
| Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing Practices and the Readers of Il'f and Petrov's Ostap Bender Novels | p. 252 |
| Closing and Opening and Closing: Reflections on the Russian Media | p. 281 |
| Appendix: The Internet on the State of Mass Media in Russia | p. 301 |
| Contributors | p. 305 |
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