Apology (was: Books on Russians' views of the West)

[Loren A. Billings]

Vladimir Bilenkin posted a query a while back:

> Next spring I will have to teach a new course on
> cross-national representations "Russia and the
> West: Under each other's eyes".  (To make it even
> worse, this is an undergraduate course).  I have
> enough materials on Western "constructs" of
> Russia/SU, including Malia's  _Under the Western
> Eyes_, which can be utilized as a quasi textbook,
> not to mention profitably exploited as such a
> "construct"  in its own right.  But the Russian
> side of this course is much weaker in
> interpretative literature. [...]

I replied with a sketchy description of a book I used
years ago. Professor Bilenkin has since received a
more complete reference (supplied to him by Arlene
Forman) for the book I had in mind:

Hasty, Olga Peters & Fusso, Suzanne (eds.) _America
     through Russian eyes (1876-1924)._ Yale
     University Press, ISBN: 0300040156, 1988.
     (Available both new and used from Amazon.com.)

This is, indeed the volume we used. In fact, in the
early to mid 1990s Professor Hasty and I were at the
same department. I now remember discussing the book
with her briefly. My apologies for not recalling that
this was her work.

Best,  --Loren Billings

-----------------------------------------------------
Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.; e-mail <billings at pu.edu.tw>
Dept. of English Language, Literature and Linguistics
Providence University, 200 Chung Chi Road, Shalu Town
Taichung Hsien/County, Taiwan 43301 Republic of China
Telephone: +886-4-2632-8001 ext. 2221 or (dept.) 2021
-----------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                http://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------