Catherine's Retinue
Old Age, Fashion, and Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4213530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luba Golburt (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 782-803 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0037677900024529 |
| OpenAlex | W2586212418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Beside her political and cultural legacy, Catherine II bequeathed to the nineteenth century a certain striking image of the body and spirit of the eighteenth: an aging aristocratic lady, inflexible in her behavioral routines and visibly unaware of historical change. This image was codified by Aleksandr Pushkin inThe Queen of Spadesand, much later, satirized by Ivan Turgenev in several of his novels. Highlighting the recurrence of these copies of Catherine the Great in nineteenth-century Russian prose, Luba Golburt interprets the narrative and historical implications of fashion and aging in this period that was fascinated with historical knowledge and imagination. The persistence of the past embodied by these figures posed a challenge to the otherwise widely embraced Hegelian notions of progress, underscoring the repetitive and ritualistic rhythms of historical experience. These figures also extended the realist narrative's historical scope and made possible a range of polyphonous temporal structures
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Historicism · Literature · Modernism (music · Narrative · Period (music · Politics · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Futures Past
Pikovaja dama
The High Stakes of Identity
Pushkin's Historical Imagination
"Gematria in "The Queen of Spades
Flaubert lectrice
An Obsession with History
Numbers and Numerology in “The Queen of Spades”
Historicism or Providentialism? Pushkin'sHistory of Pugachevin the Context of French Romantic Historiography
Madame Vigee Le Brun at the Court of Catherine the Great
Performing Autobiography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |