{"product_id":"economies-of-feeling-russian-literature-under-nicholas-i-studies-in-russian-literature-and-theory-9780810135444","title":"Economies of Feeling Russian Literature Under","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEconomies 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 Faddei Bulgarin, ambition became a staging ground for experiments with transnational literary exchange. In its encounters with the celebrated Russian cultural value of hospitality and the age-old vice of miserliness, ambition appears both timely and anachronistic, suspiciously foreign and disturbingly Russian - it challenges readers to question the equivalence of local and imported words, feelings, and forms.   Economies of Feeling examines founding texts of nineteenth-century Russian prose alongsid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extremely impressive study of some canonical Russian classics in highly sophisticated dialogue with European literary, critical, and philosophical tradition. Porter’s writing is precise, even elegant, and is a pleasure to read.\"\" - Susan McReynolds, translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton Critical Edition) and author of \u003ci\u003eRedemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038265704791,"sku":"9780810135444","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810135444.jpg?v=1750939709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/economies-of-feeling-russian-literature-under-nicholas-i-studies-in-russian-literature-and-theory-9780810135444","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}