Contested Russian Tourism - (Imperial Encounters in Russian History) by Susan Layton (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This literary, cultural history examines Russian tourism via the prism of cosmopolitanism, pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure of Western Europe. The study's thematic axis sets daunting cultural riches of the West against the compensatory Russian pleasure of playing the "European" colonizer on vacation in "Asia."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism's entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe. The study maps the shift from Enlightenment cosmopolitanism to Byronic cosmopolitanism with special attention to the art pilgrimage abroad. For typically middle-class Russians daunted by the cultural riches of the West, vacationing in the North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Crimea afforded the compensatory opportunity to play colonizer kings and queens in "Asia." Drawing on <em>Anna Karenina</em> and other literary classics, travel writing, journalism, and guidebooks, the investigation engages with current debates in cosmopolitan studies, including the fuzzy paradigm of "colonial cosmopolitanism."</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Susan Layton</strong> is a research associate at the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC) in Paris. She is the author of <em>Russian Literature and Empire. Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy</em> (1994, ebook 2011) and numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature.</p>
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