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- catalog abstract ""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 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 and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10715294.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""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 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 and professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides -- 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture -- 3. Readers and detractors -- 4. Printers and publishers -- 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling -- 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele -- 7. Sages and prophets -- 8. Disappearance and revival.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 250 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521581230".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in Russian literature".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
- catalog subject "133.3/0947 21".
- catalog subject "BF1861 .W57 1998".
- catalog subject "Fortune-telling Publishing Russia (Federation) History.".
- catalog subject "Fortune-telling Social aspects Russia (Federation) History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides -- 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture -- 3. Readers and detractors -- 4. Printers and publishers -- 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling -- 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele -- 7. Sages and prophets -- 8. Disappearance and revival.".
- catalog title "Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender, and divination in Russia from 1765 / Faith Wigzell.".
- catalog type "text".