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Distant Pleasures : Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile
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At the very time he was becoming Russia’s first and only national poet, Alexander Pushkin spent nearly six years in exile (1820-26). This book explores the meanings of exile for Pushkin’s changing sense of himself and for his poetic practices. Sent out of Petersburg but confined within Russia’s borders, Pushkin saw both the southern expansion of the empire and the isolation of country life in the North. Exile thus shaped his politics, and because he was separated from his readers and fellow writers, it defined the rhetorical patterns within which he wrote.
The author reads a small but varied group of texts from the years of exile: lyric poems, long narrative poems, the verse novel, Eugene Oregin, and the drama, Boris Godunov. By exploring Pushkin’s representations of distance from his audience, she demonstrates how he created that audience. Rather than narrating Pushkin’s “growth” into greatness, the author develops a theory of reading Pushkin’s shifting conceptions of himself, his work, and his country during the years of exile. His rhetoric of apostrophe, quotation, and figuration is considered carefully in each text. Quoted texts are given in Russian and in English translation.
The analyses range across several methodological and theoretical perspectives: biographical and historical information is frequently brought in, formalist and Bakhtinian frameworks are used for several texts, and the lessons of deconstruction and feminist inquiry are particularly important as Pushkin’s rhetoric of distance and politics of pleasure are read.
Stephanie Sandler was Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College.
Cover illustration courtesy of the Pasternak Trust.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 Stanford University Press edition (ISBN: 0804715424).
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CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONS AND THE MAKING OF AN IMPERIAL CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
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This book explores the missionary movement's influence on popular perceptions of empire and race in nineteenth-century England. The foreign missionary endeavor was one of the most influential of the channels through which nineteenth-century Britons encountered the colonies, and because of their ties to organized religion, foreign missionary societies enjoyed more regular access to a popular audience than any other colonial lobby. Focusing on the influential denominational case of English Congregationalism, this study shows how the missionary movement's audience in Britain was inundated with propaganda designed to mobilize financial and political support for missionary operations aboard, propaganda in which the imperial context and colonized targets of missionary operations figured prominently.
In her attention to the local social contexts in which missionary propaganda was disseminated, the author departs from the predominantly cultural thrust of recent studies of imperialism's popularization. She shows how Congregationalists made use of the language and instutional space provided by missions in their struggles to negotiate local relations of power. In the process, the missionary project was implicated in some of the most importatn developments in the social history of nineteeth-century Britain-the popularization of organized religion and its subsequent decline, the emergence and evolution of a language of class, the gendered making of a middle class, and the strange death of British liberalism.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition for Stanford University Press:
Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth-century England
By Susan Thorne
Published by Stanford University Press, 1999
ISBN 0804730539, 9780804730532
247 pages
Introduction 1
The Birth of Modern Missions 23
Missions 53
From Telescopic Philanthropy to Social Missionary 89
The Social Relations 124
The Strange Death of Missionary Imperialism 155
Notes 173
Works Cited 215
Old Christmas
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This book, published in 1886 and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, chronicles the American writer Washington Irving's nostalgic recollections of Christmas traditions in 19th century England. The text first appeared in 1819 in Irving's Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which also contained such classics as "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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