When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917

Brooks, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0691054509 / ISBN 13: 9780691054506

Published by Princeton Univ Pr, 1985

About this Item

The item is showing use from the previous owner but works perfectly. Signs of previous ownership which could include: tears, scuffing, notes, excessive highlighting, gift inscriptions, slight water damage, a missing dust jacket, and library markings.

Seller Inventory # 4BQWN8003ERB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691054509
• ISBN 13: 9780691054506
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

With a new introduction that underscores the book's relevance to a post-Soviet Russia, When Russia Learned to Read addresses the issue of Russia's common heritage with the liberal democratic market societies of Western Europe and the United States. Jeffrey Brooks brings out the characteristically Russian aspect of the nation's popular writing as he ranges through chapbooks, detective stories, newspaper serials, and women's fiction, tracing the emergence of secular, rational, and cosmopolitan values along with newly minted notions of individual initiative and talent. He shows how crude popular tales and serials of the era find their echoes in the literary themes of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and other great Russian writers, as well as the current renaissance of Russian detective stories and thrillers.

About the Author

Jeffrey Brooks is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.