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Author Khvoshchinskai︠a︡, Sofʹi︠a︡ Dmitrievna, 1828-1865, author.

Title City folk and country folk / Sofia Khvoshchinskaya ; translated by Nora Seligman Favorov.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 234 pages).
Series Russian library
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary clichés of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines created by Khvoshchinskaya's male peers, especially Ivan Turgenev, seventeen-year-old Olenka ultimately helps her mother overcome a sense of duty to her "betters" and leads the two to triumph over the urbanites' financial, amorous, and matrimonial machinations. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and her writer sisters closely mirror Britain's Brontës, yet Khvoshchinskaya's work contains more of Jane Austen's wit and social repartee, as well as an intellectual engagement reminiscent of Elizabeth Gaskell's condition-of-England novels. Written by a woman under a male pseudonym, this brilliant and entertaining exploration of gender dynamics on a post-emancipation Russian estate offers a fresh and necessary point of comparison with the better-known classics of nineteenth-century world literature.
Subject Country life -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Gentry -- Russia -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
Country life. (OCoLC)fst00881405
Gentry. (OCoLC)fst00940300
Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Novels.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Favorov, Nora Seligman, translator.
Added Title Gorodskie i derevenskie. English
Other Form: Print version: Khvoshchinskai︠a︡, Sofʹi︠a︡ Dmitrievna, 1828-1865. Gorodskie i derevenskie. English. City folk and country folk. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231183024 (DLC) 2016057704 (OCoLC)962005605
ISBN 9780231544504 (electronic book)
0231544502 (electronic book)
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