Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century Safran Gabriella
Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century Safran Gabriella Recording Russia examines scenes of listening to "the people" across a variety of texts by Russian writers and European…
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Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century Safran Gabriella
Recording Russia examines scenes of listening to "the people" across a variety of texts by Russian writers and European travelers to Russia. Russian writers and European observers of Russia in this era described themselves and their characters as trying hard to listen to and record the laboring Gabriella Safran challenges readings of these works that essentialize Russia as a singular place where communication between the classes is consistently fraught, arguing instead that, as in the West, the sense of separation or connection between intellectuals and those they interviewed or observed is as much about technology and performance as politics and emotions.Nineteenth-century writers belonged to a distinctive media generation using new communication technologies--not bells, but mechanically produced paper, cataloguing systems, telegraphy, and stenography.
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