An ordinary marriage: the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia

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, sentimentalis...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

1. Verfasser:

Antonova, Katherine Pickering

Format:

Elektronisch E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Veröffentlicht:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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.

Umfang:

1 online resource.

Anmerkungen:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Anmerkungen:

English

Bibliografie:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Schlagworte:

Chikhachev family.

Bezugswerke:

Parallelausgabe: 0-19-979699-8

Parallelausgabe: 0-19-997972-3