1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791649203321

Autore

Vinit͡skiĭ I. I͡U (Ilʹi͡a I͡Urʹevich), <1969->

Titolo

Ghostly paradoxes : modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism / / Ilya Vinitsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4875-3151-6

1-4426-9795-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

891.709003

Soggetti

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and spiritualism - Russia

Realism in literature

Spiritualism - Russia - History - 19th century

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Russia History Alexander II, 1855-1881

Russia Intellectual life 1801-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A new world : modern spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s -- Seance as test, or, Russian writers at a spiritualist rendezvous -- Russian glubbdubdrib : the shade of false Dimitry and Russian historical imagination in the age of realism -- Dead poets' society : Pushkin's shade in Russian cultural mythology of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Flickering hands : the spiritualist realism of Nikolai Vagner -- The middle world : the realist spiritualism of Saltykov-Schedrin -- The underworld : Dostoevsky's ontological realism -- The (dis)infection : art and hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy -- Epilogue: The spirit of literature : reflections on Leskov's artistic spiritualism.

Sommario/riassunto

"Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological



debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes ;s an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together."--Jacket.