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<p><p>in </i>mapping St. Petersburg</i>, Julie Buckler Rewrites The Exclusionary Ideology Of Classicism That Has Dominated Pictorial And Verbal Discourses On Petersburg From Pushkin's 'bronze Horseman' To The Petersburg Tricentenary Of 2003. Meticulously Researched And Illustrated, Deftly Theorized, And Vividly Written, The Book Presents An Exhilaratingly Concrete Study Of Petersburg Urban Design And Architectural History, Focusing On The Many 'eclectic' Rental Buildings, Markets, Cemeteries, And Places Of Amusement That Constitute A Physical Testimony To The Aesthetic Tastes And Mixed Social Experience Inscribed In Them. Buckler Explores The Rich Array Of Lowbrow And Middlebrow Writing On Petersburg That Furnishes The Forgotten Matrix Of Urban Folklore On Which The Russian Realist Novel Drew. Her Intellectual Mission&#58; To Restore To Visibility The Elided 'middle' Of Russian Society And Taste That Has Been So Carefully Expunged From The Cultural Record And Has Only Recently Become A Focus Of Interest For Russian Imperial Historians And Students Of Cityscape As Embodied Myth.--monika Greenleaf, Stanford University<p>this Is A Fascinating Book. It Is Beautifully Written And Contai

Author

Buckler, Julie A.

Publisher

Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691187617

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities