Economies of Feeling : : Russian Literature under Nicholas I / / Jillian Porter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Porter, Jillian,
• MitwirkendeR: Pobortseva, Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: Russian
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Слова благодарности --; Примечание к тексту --; Введение --; Глава 1 Безумная амбиция --; Глава 2 Дар Гоголя --; Глава 3 Деньги Достоевского --; Глава 4 Бессмертный скупец --; Приложение --; Словари и справочники --; Источники --; Библиография --; Предметно-именной указатель --; Содержание
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644699584; 9783110743210
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644699584
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jillian Porter.

Economies 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 alongside nonliterary materials from which they drew energy—from French clinical diagnoses of “ambitious monomania” to the various types of currency that proliferated under Nicholas I. It thus contributes fresh and fascinating insights into Russian characters’ impulses to attain rank and to squander, counterfeit, and hoard. Porter’s interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars of comparative as well as Russian literature.