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An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia
Antonova, Katherine Pickering (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College)
An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia
Antonova, Katherine Pickering (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College)
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
336 pages, 11 b/w halftones, 2 maps, 2 family trees
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | USA, January 10, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780199796991 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 165 × 236 × 27 mm · 640 g |