SESSION 1 (2.00-3.00): Topic: "Reading Aloud: Reading and Performance, the Reader
as Listener, Place and Space, Periphery and Center, Salons and Kruzhki, Reading
Together, Manuscript Culture, Private and Public, and the Public Sphere" Discussion Leader: Hilde Hoogenboom (Macalaster College) Readings:
Margaret J. M. Ezell, "Introduction" and Chapter One: "The
Social Author: Manuscript Culture, Writers and Readers," in her Social
Authorship and the Advent of Print (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1999), 1-20 and 21-44.
Martin Lyons, "New Readers in the Nineteenth Century: Women, Children,
Workers," in A History of Reading in the West ed. Guglielmo
Cavallo and Roger Chartier; trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts
Press, 1999), [313]-344. [Text available on our Blog (weblog):http://www.19thrussreadcult.blogspot.com/]
SESSION 2 (3.00-4.00): Topic: "New Reading Communities Under Nicholas I: the
Case of the Merchants" Discussion Leader: Miranda Remnek (Slavic Library, UIUC) Readings:
Bernstein, L. “Merchant ‘Correspondence’ and Russian Letter-Writing Manuals:
Petr Ivan Bogdanovich and His Pis’movnik [1791] for Merchants,” Slavic
and East European Journal, 46, no. 4 (2002).
“Divan (Dnevnik kupecheskoi devushki)” in Polilov-Severtsev, G. T. Nashi
dedi – kyptsy: bytovye kartiny nachala XIX stoletiia (Spb: 1907, 83-142);
reprinted in Peterburgskoe kupechestvo v XIX veke (Spb: Giperion,
2003) [259-308].
Suvorova, M. V. “Krug chteniia russkogo kupechestva v kontse XVIII-pervoi
polovine XIX v.” in Problemy istochnikovedeniia istorii knigi: mezhvedomstvennyi
sbornik nauchnykh trudov, vyp. 3 (2000): 144-159.
SESSION 1 (2.00-3.30): Topic: "Reading in the Provinces" and "The
Provincial Reader in the Library for Reading" Discussion Leaders: John Randolph (History, UIUC) and Melissa
Frazier (Sarah Lawrence College) Readings:
Belinsky, V.G. "Provintsial'nye bredni i zapiski Dormedona Vasil'evicha
Prutikova." In Stat'i i retsenzii. Osnovaniia
russkoi grammatiki. 1936-1938. Vol. 2 of Polnoe sobranie sochinenii,
90-96. (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1953).
L'vov, N.A. Zhizn' Anakreona Tiiskogo." In Izbrannye sochineniia,
edited and compiled by K. Iu. Lappo-Danilevskii, 106-13. (Koln, St. Petersburg:
Bohlau Verlag, Acropol, 1994). [Text available on our Blog (weblog):http://www.19thrussreadcult.blogspot.com/]
"Election of the Editor." Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
1, no. 3 (April 1830). See also the account of the election in the May and
July issues (no. 4 and 6)
George Gutsche, "Puškin and Belinskij: The role of the 'Offended Provincial,'"
in New Perspectives on Russian Nineteenth Century Prose, ed. George
J. Gutsche and Lauren G. Leighton (Columbus: Slavica Publishers, 1982), 41-59.
[Text available on our Blog (weblog):http://www.19thrussreadcult.blogspot.com/]
O. I. Senkovskii. "Pervoe pis'mo trekh tverskikh pomeshchikov k baronu
Brambeusu." In: Biblioteka dlia chteniia 22, otd. 1 (1837):
65-96.
SESSION 1 (2.00-3.00): [Will include special
graphic presentation!]
Topic: "The End of Reading Culture: Technology, The Graphic Revolution,
and Tolstoy's Image in the Popular Media of Russia, 1895-1910" Discussion Leader: Michael Denner (Russian Studies Program,
Stetson University) Readings:
Анненский, Л. А. Охота на Льва. Tula (Russia): Shar, 1998. (Chapter
1)
Daniel Boorstin. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.
(Chapters 1 and 2)
Ivins, William M. Prints and Visual Communication. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1953. (esp. Chapters 5-7. Chapter 8 “Recapitulation” serves
as a handy review of the book’s impressive argument) [Text available
from the ACLS History E-Book Project: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=HEB02292]
Nickell, William Scott. Tolstoy in the Public Domain: His Death as a
National Narrative. Diss. UCLA, Berkley, 1998. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1998.
9902182. (Chapter 1)
SESSION 2 (3.00-4.00): Topic: "Nineteenth-Century Old Believer Tales
about Patriarch Nikon (a Discussion of Several Unpublished L19thC Illustrated
Handwritten O.B. Books)" Discussion Leader: Kevin Kain (Texas A&M University-Texarkana)
Readings:
"Povest' o zhitii i rozhdenii i vospitanii i o konchine Nikona"
in A. K. Borozdin, Protopop Avvakum: ocherk iz istorii umstvennoi zhizni
russkogo obshchestva v XVII veke (St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin, 1900),
no 33, 145-167
R. O. Crummey, "Old Belief as Popular Religion," Slavic Review
52 no. 4 (Winter 1993) 700-712
M. A. Filippov, Patriarkh Nikon St. Petersburg, 1885 (reprint Moscow:
Kuchkovo pole, 1994)
E. I. Itkina, Russkii risovannyi lubok kontsa XVIII-nachala XX veka
(Moscow: Russkaia Kniga), 1992
