Introduction: The Daring to Travel and the Search for the Better

1. Fashion and Genre: The Two Instigators

Radishchev's Journey and the Taste of Necessity

Karamzin's Journey and the Taste of Fiction

Words of Nature and the Nature of Words

2. Ritual and Histrionics: Sentimental Views of Authenticity

On the Use and Abuse of Theatricality

The Travelogue as Ritual of Social Integration (Prince P. I. Shalikov)

The Travelogue as Ritual of Spiritual Elevation (V. A. Zhukovskii)



3. Creating History: Presences and Absences

History Made Present (V. V. Izmailov)

The Paradox of the Naïve (K. N. Batiushkov)

The Presence of the History Writer (A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinskii)

The Paradox of the Sentimental (I. M. Murav'ev-Apostol)

4. The Space of Irony

Irony, Fragmentation, and the Tower of Babel (A. F. Vel'tman)

Baron Brambeus and the Ironies of Vulgar Traveling (O. I. Senkovskii)

Ironic Masks and the Struggle for the Self (A. S. Pushkin)

Conclusion: The Encumbered Gaze

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Andreas Schönle is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan.