Book contents
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Chapter 21 Print Culture
- Chapter 22 Embarrassment
- Chapter 23 Tolstoy
- Chapter 24 French Literature
- Chapter 25 Modernism and Symbolism
- Chapter 26 Theatrical Traditions
- Chapter 27 Modern Theater
- Chapter 28 Chekhov’s Moscow Art Theater (1897–1904)
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 21 - Print Culture
from Part IV - Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Part IV Literature
- Chapter 21 Print Culture
- Chapter 22 Embarrassment
- Chapter 23 Tolstoy
- Chapter 24 French Literature
- Chapter 25 Modernism and Symbolism
- Chapter 26 Theatrical Traditions
- Chapter 27 Modern Theater
- Chapter 28 Chekhov’s Moscow Art Theater (1897–1904)
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Louise McReynolds considers what it was like for Chekhov as young writer amid the increasingly diverse readerships, publishers, and editorial boards of his time, and how his writing developed in response to the state censorship apparatus and to the media outlets, both popular and “prestige,” that constituted a newly emergent commercial press.
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- Chekhov in Context , pp. 163 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023