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Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765
- Title
- Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765 / Faith Wigzell.
- Author
- Wigzell, Faith.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Reading Russian fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Russian literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Russian literature
- Subject
- Geschichte 1765-1998
- Fortune-telling > Social aspects > History. > Russia (Federation)
- Fortune-telling > Publishing > History. > Russia (Federation)
- Fortune-telling > Social aspects
- Schrifttum
- Soziologie
- Wahrsagen
- Waarzeggerij
- Boeken
- Fortune-telling > Russia > History
- Fortune-telling > Social aspects > History. > Russia
- Fortune-telling > Publishing > History. > Russia
- Divination > Aspect social > Histoire. > Russie
- Sorcellerie > Russie > Histoire
- Superstitions > Russie > Histoire
- Occultisme > Russie > Histoire
- Russia (Federation)
- Russland
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides -- 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture -- 3. Readers and detractors -- 4. Printers and publishers -- 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling -- 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele -- 7. Sages and prophets -- 8. Disappearance and revival.
- ISBN
- 0521581230
- 9780521581233
- LCCN
- 97018196
- OCLC
- ocm37238865
- 37238865
- SCSB-9551809
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library