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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861960603321

Autore

Bowers Katherine

Titolo

Writing Fear : Russian Realism and the Gothic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781487526931

9781487526924

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Disciplina

891.73087290903

Soggetti

Gothic revival (Literature) - Russia

Realism in literature

Russian fiction - European influences

Russian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century

Russia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Note on Transliteration and Translation -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Russian Realism and the Gothic -- Part I. Gothic Migration -- 1 A Russian Reader's Gothic Library -- 2 Gothic Transmutations in Pushkin and Gogol -- 3 Russian Landscapes in a Gothic Frame -- 4 The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Gothic Novel -- Part II. Gothic Realism -- 5 Physiological Petersburg, Gothic Petersburg -- 6 Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question -- 7 Political Terror and the School of Horror -- 8 The Fall of the House on the Russian Estate -- Conclusion: Chekhov's Ghosts

Sommario/riassunto

"Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism."--