Food, Orality, and Nostalgia for Childhood: Gastronomic Slavophilism in Midnineteenth-Century Russian Fiction

LeBlanc discusses nostalgia for childhood and themes of food and eating in the context of Slavophilia in mid-19th-century Russian fiction, focusing on the works of Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Gogol and Grigorii Kvitka-Osnov'ianenko.

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Russian review (Stanford) 1999-04, Vol.58 (2), p.244-267
Main Author: LeBlanc, Ronald D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Character
Childhood
Children & youth
Fiction
Food
Foodways
Gastronomy
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich (1809-1852)
Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (1812-1891)
Ivan Goncharov
Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Grigorii
Landowners
Literary criticism
Literary history
Mothers
Narrators
Nikolai Gogol
Nostalgia
Novels
Orality
Russia
Russian literature
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Summary:LeBlanc discusses nostalgia for childhood and themes of food and eating in the context of Slavophilia in mid-19th-century Russian fiction, focusing on the works of Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Gogol and Grigorii Kvitka-Osnov'ianenko.
ISSN:0036-0341
1467-9434
DOI:10.1111/0036-0341.701999070