READING RUSSIAN FORTUNES: PRINT CULTURE, GENDER AND DIVINATION IN RUSSIA FROM 1765.

WIGZELL, Faith.

ISBN 10: 0521581230 ISBN 13: 9780521581233

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,, 1998

Language: English

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher�s black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0521581230 Pages: 266 May show some very slight shelf wear but content fine and unread. Excellent condition.

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READING RUSSIAN FORTUNES: PRINT CULTURE, GENDER AND DIVINATION IN RUSSIA FROM 1765.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521581230

ISBN 13

9780521581233

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Fine

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This is the first full-length study of the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune telling in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. It examines the ways in which popular fortune telling books found acceptance among urban and literate Russians, the role of women in fortune telling, and the function of fortune telling in their culture. It goes on to consider the relationship between urban fortune telling and traditional oral culture, and discusses why fortune telling continues as a powerful force in modern Russian society.

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"Fortune-telling and divination have a prominent place in the popular imagination nearly everywhere in the world, and Faith Wigzell has produced a captivating and sophisticated study of this subject in Russia." Slavic Review

"...Wigzell provides us with an extensively researched and easily readable work that illuminates an important area in the lives of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Russians." Russian Review

"...there is a great deal of intersting information in this book and we can hope that Wigzell will expand her explorations in this level of culture." Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

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