12 Tourist Decadence at the Fin de Siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and Other Writers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One Becoming Tourists
8. 1 Russia’s Enlightenment Travel Model: Karamzin, the English, and Italy 37
9. 2 The Romantic Vacation Mentality 61
10. 3 Nationalist Worries about Tourism: Pogodin, Belinsky, Zagoskin 91
11. 4 Vacationing in the Caucasus: Authenticity and the Sophisticate/Provincial Divide 120
12. Part Two Shocks of Modernization
13. 5 Inundating the West after the Crimean War 153
14. 6 Tourist Angst: Aesthetics, Moral Imagination, and Politics in Tolstoy’s Lucerne 181
15. 7 Cosmopolitans, the Crowd, and Radical Killjoys: Turgenev, Other Writers, and the Critics 204
16. 8 Dostoevsky’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Animus toward Tourism 237
17. Part Three Embourgeoisement and Its Enemies
18. 9 The Rising Tourist Tide: Foreign Travel from Winter Notes to Anna Karenina 267
19. 10 Anna Karenina and the Tourist Passion for Italy 301
20. 11 Tatars and the Tourist Boom in the Crimea: Markov’s Sketches of the Crimea and Other Writings 330
21. 12 Tourist Decadence at the Fin de Siècle: Chekhov, Veselitskaya, and Other Writers 366
22. Concluding Observations 413
23. Bibliography 421
24. Index 454