Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765

by Anthony Cross, Barbara Heldt, Catriona Kelly, et al.

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Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender, at the same time considering the function of both amateur...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052102479X

ISBN13:9780521024792

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.09 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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