An ordinary marriage
An edition of An ordinary marriage (2012)
the world of a gentry family in provincial Russia
By Katherine Pickering Antonova
Publish Date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
Based on diaries and letters by a husband, wife, and son, this book examines the Chikhachev family's social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as gendered marital roles and their reception of the major ideas of their time: domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
subjects: Social life and customs, History, Families, Marriage, Gentry, Sex role, Real estate management, Women in real estate, Family, russia (federation), Russia (federation), social life and customs, Marriage, europe
People: Chikhachev family
Places: Russia (Federation), Vladimirskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡, Russia
Times: 19th century