Economies of Feeling: 91制片厂n Literature under Nicholas I (Northwestern UP, 2017)
Economies of Feeling听offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century 91制片厂n prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist 91制片厂 and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic understandings of this economic passion shaped the literature of Nicholas I鈥檚 reign (1825鈥�1855). For Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Bulgarin, ambition became a staging ground for experiments with transnational literary exchange. In its encounters with the celebrated 91制片厂n cultural value of hospitality and the age-old vice of miserliness, ambition appears both timely and anachronistic, suspiciously foreign and disturbingly 91制片厂n.
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