Strangers in a strange land occidentalist publics and orintalist geographies in nineteenth century georgian imaginaries

Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of "Europe," at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manning, Paul (-)
Corporate Author: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brighton : Academic Studies Press 2012.
Series:Cultural revolutions.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421014606719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Europe Started Here
  • I: Languages of Nature, Culture, and Civilization: Letters of a Traveler
  • II: Imperial and Colonial Sublime: The Aesthetics of Infrastructures
  • III: Correspondence: "Georgians, that is, readers of Droeba"
  • IV: Spies and Journalists: Aristocratic and Intelligentsia Publics
  • V: Writers and Speakers: Pseudonymous Intelligentsia and Anonymous People
  • VI: Dialogic Genres: Conversations and Feuilletons
  • VII: Writing and Life: Fact and Fairy Tale
  • VIII: Fellow Travelers: Localism, Occidentalism, and Orientalism
  • Conclusion: A Stranger from a Strange Land
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index