Life Is ElsewhereIn Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures