The space of the book : print culture in the Russian social imagination / edited by Miranda Remnek.

Other author Remnek, Miranda Beaven.
Format Book
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Books and reading--Russia. --History.
Books and reading--Soviet Union. --History.
Books and reading--Russia (Federation). --History.
Russia--Intellectual life.
Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life.

SeriesStudies in book and print culture
Studies in book and print culture. ^A565923
Contents Introduction / Miranda Remnek -- Russian eighteenth-century popular enlightenment literature on commerce / Lina Bernstein -- Dinner at Smirdin's : forces in Russian print culture in the early reign of Nicholas I / George Gutsche -- The proliferation of elite readerships and circle poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s) / Joseph Peschio and Igor' Pil'shchikov -- The archaeology of 'backwardness' in Russia : assessing the adequacy of libraries for rural audiences in late Imperial Russia / Ben Eklof -- The reading culture of Russian workers in the early twentieth century (evidence from public library records) / Leonid Borodkin and Evgeny Chugunov -- Reading between the (confessional) lines : the intersection of Old Believer manuscript books and images with print cultures of late Imperial Russia / Kevin M. Kain -- The moral self in Russia's literacy and visual cultures : the late imperial era and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks -- Books and their readers in twentieth-century Russia / Stephen Lovell -- Adapting paratextual theory to the Soviet context : publishing practices and the readers of Il'f and Petrov's Ostap Bender novels / Anne O. Fisher -- Closing and opening and closing : reflections on the Russian media / Marianna Tax Choldin -- Appendix. The internet on the state of mass media in Russia / Svetlana Stulova.
Abstract "From the Enlightenment to the Internet age, reading practices in Russia have been shaped by factors such as artistic and cultural trends, economics, and state scrutiny. The Space of the Book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of salient topics in Russian print culture, in a volume that promises to become the leading introduction to current research in the field. This collection features illustrated essays by preeminent Russian historians, literature specialists, and innovative younger scholars on topics including the influence of commerce, diversifying readerships, education and rural libraries, reception theory, and censorship. Miranda Remnek begins each chapter with an introduction on digital application, and she and her contributors skilfully connect multidisciplinary sources along a 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."--Dust jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2011282491
ISBN9781442641020 (alk. paper)
ISBN1442641029 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks Z1003.5.R9 S63 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold