{"product_id":"mapping-st-petersburg-9780691130323","title":"Mapping St. Petersburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a 'conceptual hierarchy' to a living cultural system. This book seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St Petersburg - with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives - to offer a view of an urban landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2005-06 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures \"[Mapping St. Petersburg] challenges the enduring myth of the city's uniqueness by exploring its ordinariness, as depicted in \"middlebrow\" fiction and non-fictional sources, uncovering a rich body of material that in itself should prove invaluable to researchers in a number of disciplines.\"--Lindsey Hughes, Times Literary Supplement \"[Buckler] conveys very effectively what many writers have felt about the city--its elusively cerebral characters, its insubstantiality verging on evanescence.\"--Catriona Kelly, Russian Review \"[Buckler] offers a useful, thematically organized synthesis of interesting writing on St. Petersburg, many of them otherwise inaccessible to anglophone readers.\"--Stephen Lovell, American Historical Review \"[A] brilliant and intriguing exercise in urban textology... [Buckler] conveys the sense of complexity and mystery that defines, and always has defined, Saint Petersburg.\"--Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, Bookforum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWGEDMENTS xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Petersburg Eclecticism, Part I: City as Text 27 CHAPTER TWO: Petersburg Eclecticism, Part II: Literary Form and Cityshape 61 CHAPTER THREE: Armchair Traveling: Russian Literary Guides to St. Petersburg 89 CHAPTER FOUR: Stories in Common: Urban Legends in St. Petersburg 116 CHAPTER FIVE: Literary Centers and Margins: Palaces, Dachas, Slums, and Industrial Outskirts 158 CHAPTER SIX: Meeting in the Middle: Provincial Visitors to St. Petersburg 195 CHAPTER SEVEN: The City's Memory: Public Graveyards and Textual Repositories 218 CHAPTER EIGHT: Timely Remembering and the Tricentennial Celebration 247 NOTES 253 BIBLPGRAPHY 321 INDEX 355","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359108038999,"sku":"9780691130323","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691130323.jpg?v=1754123616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mapping-st-petersburg-9780691130323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}