Reading in Russia Practices of Reading and Literary Communication, 1760-1930

• Other Authors: Rebecchini, Damiano (Editor), Vassena, Raffaella (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Milano Ledizioni 2014
• Series: Di/Segni
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; Russia; history; reading; social function
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

"Reader, where are you?", wondered, in the mid-1880s, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the Russian writers that paid the most attention to the readership of his time. Saltykov-Shchedrin's call did not go unanswered. Over the past two centuries, various disciplines - from the social...