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Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) by Jillian Porter is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist Russia and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic understandings of this economic passion shaped the literature of Nicholas I’s reign (1825 —1855). Porter shows how, for Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Fadd
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- Author
- Jillian Porter
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810135451
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Economics, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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