Haunted empire : Gothic and the Russian imperial uncanny

Haunted empire Gothic and the Russian imperial uncanny

This text shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. The book argues that the persistent Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire enact deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sobol, Valeria, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press 2021.
Colección:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Cornell scholarship online.
Materias:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian > History and criticism.
Ukrainian fiction > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction. From the Island of Bornholm to Taman′: The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny
  • 1. A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin’s “The Island of Bornholm”
  • 2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s
  • 3. “Gloomy Finland” and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation
  • 4 . Ukraine: Russia’s Uncanny Double
  • 5. On Mimicry and Ukrainians: Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel′sky’s The Convent Graduate
  • 6. ’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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