The Space of the Book
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The Space of the Book

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Space of the Book

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Skilfully connecting multidisciplinary sources along broad historical continuum, The Space of the Book will be a valuable resource as the study of Russian print culture takes on new directions in a digitized world.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures and Tables
  3. Note on Transliteration
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce
  7. 2. Dinner at Smirdin’s: Forces in Russian Print Culture in the Early Reign of Nicholas I
  8. 3. The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s–1830s)
  9. 4. The Archaeology of ‘Backwardness’ in Russia: Assessing the Adequacy of Libraries for Rural Audiences in Late Imperial Russia
  10. 5. The Reading Culture of Russian Workers in the Early Twentieth Century (Evidence from Public Library Records)
  11. 6. Reading between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Manuscript Books and Images with Print Cultures of Late Imperial Russia
  12. 7. The Moral Self in Russia’s Literary and Visual Cultures: The Late Imperial Era and Beyond
  13. 8. Books and Their Readers in Twentieth-Century Russia
  14. 9. Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing Practices and the Readers of Il’f and Petrov’s Ostap Bender Novels
  15. 10. Closing and Opening and Closing: Reflections on the Russian Media
  16. Appendix: The Internet on the State of Mass Media in Russia
  17. Contributors