Anne Lounsbery teaches Russian literature at New York University. She has published numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and is the author of Thin Culture, High Art.

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground
2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside
3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others)
4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N
5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste
6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans
7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces
8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia?
9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness
11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality
12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Anne Lounsbery teaches Russian literature at New York University. She has published numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and is the author of Thin Culture, High Art.