An Ordinary Marriage

An Ordinary Marriage The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780199979721
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.8094709034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English