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An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia de Katherine Pickering Antonova

An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia

Autor Katherine Pickering Antonova
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2017

Evoluția istoriografiei ruse din ultimele decenii a marcat o trecere semnificativă de la analiza marilor figuri politice către microistorie și studiul spațiului privat. În acest context, descoperim în An Ordinary Marriage o perspectivă inedită asupra micii nobilimi de provincie, o clasă socială adesea ignorată în favoarea aristocrației de la curte. Considerăm că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în documentarea excepțională; Katherine Pickering Antonova utilizează un corpus de jurnale și scrisori care oferă o privire rară asupra dinamicii interne a familiei Chikhachev între anii 1820 și 1875.

Observăm aici o contradicție fascinantă față de normele europene ale epocii. În timp ce manualele de conduită ale vremii promovau izolarea femeii în spațiul domestic, Natalia Chikhacheva era cea care administra proprietățile și gestiona relația cu iobagii, o sarcină considerată „practică” și, prin urmare, mai puțin nobilă. În paralel, soțul ei, Andrei, își asuma rolul de educator moral, definind masculinitatea prin sferă intelectuală și simbolică. Cititorii familiarizați cu Refining Russia de Catriona Kelly vor aprecia modul în care Katherine Pickering Antonova confruntă literatura de sfaturi teoretice cu realitatea pragmatică și adesea surprinzătoare a vieții de zi cu zi în provincie. Spre deosebire de Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia, care oferă o privire de ansamblu pe parcursul a trei secole, acest volum se concentrează pe profunzimea unei singure unități familiale, transformând „ordinarul” într-un studiu de caz esențial despre reziliență și adaptare culturală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190616748
ISBN-10: 0190616741
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 11 b/w halftones, 2 maps, 2 family trees
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Această carte este recomandată celor interesați de istoria socială și de studiile de gen în context est-european. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care ideile mari ale secolului al XIX-lea, precum Romantismul și Iluminismul, au fost traduse în viața cotidiană a unei familii rusești. Este un motiv concret de lectură pentru oricine dorește să vadă cum documentele personale pot răsturna stereotipurile istorice despre rolurile masculine și feminine.

Despre autor

Katherine Pickering Antonova este o specialistă în istoria Rusiei, preocupată de structurile sociale și de viața cotidiană a secolului al XIX-lea. Experiența sa în metodologia cercetării istorice este evidentă și în cealaltă lucrare a sa, The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays, unde pune accent pe procesul riguros al scrierii și analizei critice. În An Ordinary Marriage, autoarea aplică această rigoare academică asupra unui set de documente primare inedite, demonstrând o capacitate remarcabilă de a extrage semnificații macro-istorice din detalii biografice aparent banale. Activitatea sa academică se concentrează pe transformarea documentelor de arhivă în narațiuni coerente despre identitate și societate.

Descriere

An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, Natalia, oversaw serf labor and managed finances while the father, Andrei, raised the children, at a time when domestic ideology advocating a woman's place in the home was at its height in European advice manuals. But Andrei Chikhachev defined masculinity as a realm of intellectualism; the father could be in charge of moral education, defined as an intellectual task. Managing estates that often barely yielded a livable income was a practical task and therefore considered less elevated, though still vitally important to the family's interests. Thus estate management was available to gentry women like Natalia Chikhacheva, and the fact that it inevitably expanded their realm of influence and opportunity (within the limits of their estates), and that it increased their centrality to the family's material security relative to their social counterparts to the west, was accidental.An Ordinary Marriage examines the daily activities and ideas of the family based on multiple overlapping diaries and informal correspondence by the husband, wife, and son of the family, as well as the wife's brother. No such cache of intimate Russian family documents has ever previously been studied in such depth. The family's relative obscurity (with no pretensions to fame, wealth, or influence) and the presence of a woman's private documents are especially unusual in any context. The book considers the Chikhachevs' social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as their marital roles and their reception of major ideas of their time, such as domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.

Recenzii

Littered with memorable characters, meticulous, whilst at the same time highly imaginative, these pagesreally isn't your everyday book. As such, it stands out - which, for historians, can only be a good thing.
Katherine Pickering Antonova's meticulous study of provincial family life in the nineteenth century is the result of the author's incredible archival find: the extensive papers of an ordinary provincial gentry family, the Chikhachevs.... This excellent and entertaining study is a must-read for anyone interested in provincial life, marriage, and family, not only in Russia but also throughout Europe.
Historians of the family, gender, and rural society will find much of interest and importance in this first book by Katherine Pickering Antonova.... Like a Russian novel, the book is populated by memorable characters...[and as] one continues to read...its likeable subjects grow more and more familiar, and its important contributions to a wide range of historical questions become clear.... Antonova's book should be required reading for all historians of imperial Russia....
[A] beautifully and carefully produced work of scholarship and inspiration to hold as well as read.
This book ofers an engaging and thorough historical study of a nineteenth-century gentry family from the Vladimir Province, the Chikhachevs. ... This study can serve as an encyclopedic source of knowledge about the estate economy and lifestyle of the Russian gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century. ... The book deserves particular praise for mastering a narrative that, at some moments, artistically revives its characters and their most private and intimate moments for readers, while still retaining an academic focus. ... [This] book will be a very valuable resource for any historian of nineteenth-century Russia.
Chapters describe the provincial world of the Chikhachevs, society, the village, estate management, wider society, health and loss, domesticity, education, and relationships with broader understandings of the roles of the nobility and of rural life. The result is rich in detail and contributes to the growing literature on both the nobility in the imperial period and on provincial Russia. ... The book expands the historical understanding of domestic roles in the provinces in important ways.
This imaginative study explores various dimensions of the lives of a middling, serf-owning noble family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia. ... [T]he resulting study makes important contributions to our understanding of gender roles, intellectual debates, and cultural values among Russia's provincial nobility during the last decades of serfdom. ... Antonova provides wonderfully detailed depictions of the internal life of the Chikharev/Chernavina family in a variety of contexts. ... [H]er study is exceptionally well written, providing a useful complement to the rich fictional literature about serfdom and the serf-owning nobility. ... Antonova's study makes important contributions to our understanding of nineteenth-century Russian society that will appeal to students of that time and place.
The most compelling aspect of Antonova's microhistory rests in the unusual primary sources that the Chikhachev family of Vladimir Province generated. ... Using thick description to present the family papers' contents and Andrei's journalistic essays on gentry domesticity, Antonova explores such themes as gentry society; village life; estate management; sociability, charity, and leisure; illness and death; domesticity and motherhood; education; and ideology. ... Antonova possesses a sharp analytical mind.
Drawing on a unique body of sources, Katherine Pickering Antonova masterfully shows how gender roles that diverged significantly from emerging ideals of domesticity structured and gave meaning to life within a provincial serf-owning family and helped preserve its estates.
An Ordinary Marriage offers a remarkably vivid account of the life of a provincial noble clan, the Chikhachevs, during the nineteenth century. Deftly using diaries, letters, and estate records, Katherine Pickering Antonova offers new insight into household and estate management, leisure, charity, and the intellectual world within which this family lived over several generations. Her book adds significantly to the growing list of impressive new work devoted to the 'middling folk' of Imperial Russia. It belongs on the shelf of every Russian historian.
An Ordinary Marriage uses daily life on the estate of one middling noble family over the course of a half-century (between ca. 1820 and ca. 1875) to show the functioning and evolution of private spaces and intimate relations. The strengths of Antonova's book lie not only in its detailed presentation of the inner world of the Chikhachev family but also in its illuminating analysis of the family's daily material, intellectual, and emotional life.

Notă biografică

Katherine Pickering Antonova is assistant professor of history at Queens College, New York.