03034nam a22004335i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100020001900118024003100137082001200168100002800180245013200208264004600340300003500386336002600421337002600447338003600473347002400509490012000533505032300653520111600976650001602092650001702108650001302125650002302138650002302161650001302184650003002197650003502227650003102262710003402293773002002327776003602347830012002383856009702503978-1-4020-3909-6DE-He21320260521092101.0cr nn 008mamaa100301s2005    ne |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a9781402039096  a997814020390967 a10.1007/1-4020-3909-32doi04a9002231 aOfford, Derek.eauthor.10aJourneys to a Graveyardh[electronic resource] :bPerceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing /cby Derek Offord. 1aDordrecht :bSpringer Netherlands,c2005.  aXXVI, 287 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées,x0066-6610 ;v1920 aPiotr Tolstoi: a travel diary -- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys -- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller -- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands -- Botkin: Letters on Spain -- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy -- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.  aJourneys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity. 0aHUMANITIES. 0aLINGUISTICS. 0aHISTORY. 0aREGIONAL PLANNING.14aHUMANITIES / ARTS.24aHISTORY.24aLANGUAGES AND LITERATURE.24aREGIONAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES.24aINTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer eBooks08iPrinted edition:z9781402039089 0aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées,x0066-6610 ;v19240uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3909-3zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY