โ Scribed by Reuel K. Wilson (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The aim of this study is to trace the development of the literary travel memoir in Russia during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth. Having indicated the proveยญ nances of this genre in Western Europe, I shall evaluate its role in Russian literary history. Because this study is not intended to be an historical survey of all significant travel works that appeared in Russia, I shall pass over such early pioneer travelers as the Abbot Daniil who visited Palestine at the beginning of the twelfth century and recorded for his countrymen detailed descriptions of the Holy places, or the merchant, Afanasij Nikitin, whose travel notes concerning a trip to India are preserved in a fifteenth century chronicle. The travel genre, which had become enormously popular in eightยญ eenth century Western Europe,l was cleverly exploited by Fonvizin, Radishchev, and Karamzin to expound to the Russian reading public certain important notions on literary theory, on society (foreign and domestic), on themselves, and on nature. The travel genre - then as now a flexible instrument for transmitting, by means of diary-style narrative, information about distant, often exotic people and place- had been adapted by Sterne and others to themes having little relation to a conventional journey. The Russians were quick to grasp the genre's literary as well as its polemical possibilities, and influenced by Western models, they too used it to convey theoretical assertions on a variety of SUbjects.
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages XIII-XIII
Some Historical Examples โ The Eighteenth Century. Goethe and Moritz....Pages 1-7
Sterneโs Sentimental Journey....Pages 8-16
Demaistreโs Voyage Autour de ma Chambre....Pages 17-19
Dupatyโs Lettres sur LโItalie....Pages 20-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Fonvizinโs Letters from Abroad....Pages 31-38
Radishchevโs Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow....Pages 39-48
Pushkinโs Journey from Moscow to Petersburg....Pages 49-55
Karamzinโs Letters of a Russian Traveler....Pages 56-81
The Epigones....Pages 82-97
Pushkinโs Journey to Erzurum....Pages 98-121
Conclusion....Pages 122-124
Back Matter....Pages 125-136
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