{"product_id":"a-nation-astray-ingrid-anne-kleespies-9780875804613","title":"A Nation Astray","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the discourse about national identity. For Russians of the nineteenth century national identity was anything but stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis rootlessness is at the core of \u003ci\u003eA Nation Astray\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, Ingrid Anne Kleespies traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of literary works by seminal writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Chaadaev, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Appealing to students of Russian Romanticism, nationhood, and identity, as well as general readers interested in exile and displacement as elements of the human condition, this interdisciplinary work illuminates the historical and philosophical underpinnings of a basic aspect of Russian self-determination: the nomadic constitution of the Russian nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ingrid Anne Kleespies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0875804616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780875804613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Ingrid Anne Kleespies","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947432706303,"sku":"9780875804613","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8a5b7203-546f-4811-b5d2-cf0604f6cbf9.jpg?v=1681518693","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-nation-astray-ingrid-anne-kleespies-9780875804613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}