An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia
Autor Katherine Pickering Antonovaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190616748
ISBN-10: 0190616741
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 11 b/w halftones, 2 maps, 2 family trees
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190616741
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 11 b/w halftones, 2 maps, 2 family trees
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Littered with memorable characters, meticulous, whilst at the same time highly imaginative, these pagesreally isn't your everyday book. As such, it stands out - which, for historians, can only be a good thing.
Katherine Pickering Antonova's meticulous study of provincial family life in the nineteenth century is the result of the author's incredible archival find: the extensive papers of an ordinary provincial gentry family, the Chikhachevs.... This excellent and entertaining study is a must-read for anyone interested in provincial life, marriage, and family, not only in Russia but also throughout Europe.
Historians of the family, gender, and rural society will find much of interest and importance in this first book by Katherine Pickering Antonova.... Like a Russian novel, the book is populated by memorable characters...[and as] one continues to read...its likeable subjects grow more and more familiar, and its important contributions to a wide range of historical questions become clear.... Antonova's book should be required reading for all historians of imperial Russia....
[A] beautifully and carefully produced work of scholarship and inspiration to hold as well as read.
This book ofers an engaging and thorough historical study of a nineteenth-century gentry family from the Vladimir Province, the Chikhachevs. ... This study can serve as an encyclopedic source of knowledge about the estate economy and lifestyle of the Russian gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century. ... The book deserves particular praise for mastering a narrative that, at some moments, artistically revives its characters and their most private and intimate moments for readers, while still retaining an academic focus. ... [This] book will be a very valuable resource for any historian of nineteenth-century Russia.
Chapters describe the provincial world of the Chikhachevs, society, the village, estate management, wider society, health and loss, domesticity, education, and relationships with broader understandings of the roles of the nobility and of rural life. The result is rich in detail and contributes to the growing literature on both the nobility in the imperial period and on provincial Russia. ... The book expands the historical understanding of domestic roles in the provinces in important ways.
This imaginative study explores various dimensions of the lives of a middling, serf-owning noble family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. ... [T]he resulting study makes important contributions to our understanding of gender roles, intellectual debates, and cultural values among Russia's provincial nobility during the last decades of serfdom. ... Antonova provides wonderfully detailed depictions of the internal life of the Chikharev/Chernavina family in a variety of contexts. ... [H]er study is exceptionally well written, providing a useful complement to the rich fictional literature about serfdom and the serf-owning nobility. ... Antonova's study makes important contributions to our understanding of nineteenth-century Russian society that will appeal to students of that time and place.
The most compelling aspect of Antonova's microhistory rests in the unusual primary sources that the Chikhachev family of Vladimir Province generated. ... Using thick description to present the family papers' contents and Andrei's journalistic essays on gentry domesticity, Antonova explores such themes as gentry society; village life; estate management; sociability, charity, and leisure; illness and death; domesticity and motherhood; education; and ideology. ... Antonova possesses a sharp analytical mind.
Drawing on a unique body of sources, Katherine Pickering Antonova masterfully shows how gender roles that diverged significantly from emerging ideals of domesticity structured and gave meaning to life within a provincial serf-owning family and helped preserve its estates.
An Ordinary Marriage offers a remarkably vivid account of the life of a provincial noble clan, the Chikhachevs, during the nineteenth century. Deftly using diaries, letters, and estate records, Katherine Pickering Antonova offers new insight into household and estate management, leisure, charity, and the intellectual world within which this family lived over several generations. Her book adds significantly to the growing list of impressive new work devoted to the 'middling folk' of Imperial Russia. It belongs on the shelf of every Russian historian.
An Ordinary Marriage uses daily life on the estate of one middling noble family over the course of a half-century (between ca. 1820 and ca. 1875) to show the functioning and evolution of private spaces and intimate relations. The strengths of Antonova's book lie not only in its detailed presentation of the inner world of the Chikhachev family but also in its illuminating analysis of the family's daily material, intellectual, and emotional life.
Katherine Pickering Antonova's meticulous study of provincial family life in the nineteenth century is the result of the author's incredible archival find: the extensive papers of an ordinary provincial gentry family, the Chikhachevs.... This excellent and entertaining study is a must-read for anyone interested in provincial life, marriage, and family, not only in Russia but also throughout Europe.
Historians of the family, gender, and rural society will find much of interest and importance in this first book by Katherine Pickering Antonova.... Like a Russian novel, the book is populated by memorable characters...[and as] one continues to read...its likeable subjects grow more and more familiar, and its important contributions to a wide range of historical questions become clear.... Antonova's book should be required reading for all historians of imperial Russia....
[A] beautifully and carefully produced work of scholarship and inspiration to hold as well as read.
This book ofers an engaging and thorough historical study of a nineteenth-century gentry family from the Vladimir Province, the Chikhachevs. ... This study can serve as an encyclopedic source of knowledge about the estate economy and lifestyle of the Russian gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century. ... The book deserves particular praise for mastering a narrative that, at some moments, artistically revives its characters and their most private and intimate moments for readers, while still retaining an academic focus. ... [This] book will be a very valuable resource for any historian of nineteenth-century Russia.
Chapters describe the provincial world of the Chikhachevs, society, the village, estate management, wider society, health and loss, domesticity, education, and relationships with broader understandings of the roles of the nobility and of rural life. The result is rich in detail and contributes to the growing literature on both the nobility in the imperial period and on provincial Russia. ... The book expands the historical understanding of domestic roles in the provinces in important ways.
This imaginative study explores various dimensions of the lives of a middling, serf-owning noble family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. ... [T]he resulting study makes important contributions to our understanding of gender roles, intellectual debates, and cultural values among Russia's provincial nobility during the last decades of serfdom. ... Antonova provides wonderfully detailed depictions of the internal life of the Chikharev/Chernavina family in a variety of contexts. ... [H]er study is exceptionally well written, providing a useful complement to the rich fictional literature about serfdom and the serf-owning nobility. ... Antonova's study makes important contributions to our understanding of nineteenth-century Russian society that will appeal to students of that time and place.
The most compelling aspect of Antonova's microhistory rests in the unusual primary sources that the Chikhachev family of Vladimir Province generated. ... Using thick description to present the family papers' contents and Andrei's journalistic essays on gentry domesticity, Antonova explores such themes as gentry society; village life; estate management; sociability, charity, and leisure; illness and death; domesticity and motherhood; education; and ideology. ... Antonova possesses a sharp analytical mind.
Drawing on a unique body of sources, Katherine Pickering Antonova masterfully shows how gender roles that diverged significantly from emerging ideals of domesticity structured and gave meaning to life within a provincial serf-owning family and helped preserve its estates.
An Ordinary Marriage offers a remarkably vivid account of the life of a provincial noble clan, the Chikhachevs, during the nineteenth century. Deftly using diaries, letters, and estate records, Katherine Pickering Antonova offers new insight into household and estate management, leisure, charity, and the intellectual world within which this family lived over several generations. Her book adds significantly to the growing list of impressive new work devoted to the 'middling folk' of Imperial Russia. It belongs on the shelf of every Russian historian.
An Ordinary Marriage uses daily life on the estate of one middling noble family over the course of a half-century (between ca. 1820 and ca. 1875) to show the functioning and evolution of private spaces and intimate relations. The strengths of Antonova's book lie not only in its detailed presentation of the inner world of the Chikhachev family but also in its illuminating analysis of the family's daily material, intellectual, and emotional life.
Notă biografică
Katherine Pickering Antonova is assistant professor of history at Queens College, New York.