Ordinary Marriage - The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia

Zusatztext An Ordinary Marriage uses daily life on the estate of one middling noble family over the course of a half-century (between ca. 1820 and ca. 1875) to show the functioning and evolution of private spaces and intimate relations. The strengths of Antonova's book lie not only in its detailed presentation of the inner world of the Chikhachev family but also in its illuminating analysis of the family's daily material! intellectual! and emotional life. Informationen zum Autor Katherine Pickering Antonova is assistant professor of history at Queens College, New York. Klappentext Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism. Zusammenfassung Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.

Summary

Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Pickering Antonova
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780190616748
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061674-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial, Published diaries, letters and journals