04509nam 2200721 450 991045862910332120200520144314.01-4426-9795-410.3138/9781442697959(CKB)2560000000054376(OCoLC)707712754(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442454(SSID)ssj0000484638(PQKBManifestationID)11284743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484638(PQKBWorkID)10594740(PQKB)10732553(CEL)433786(CaBNvSL)slc00226141(MiAaPQ)EBC3272668(MiAaPQ)EBC4672961(DE-B1597)465208(OCoLC)1013941002(OCoLC)944176489(DE-B1597)9781442697959(Au-PeEL)EBL4672961(CaPaEBR)ebr11258611(OCoLC)958572641(EXLCZ)99256000000005437620160923h20092009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGhostly paradoxes modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism /Ilya VinitskyToronto, Ontario ;Buffalo, New York ;London, England :University of Toronto Press,2009.©20091 online resource (272 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4875-2365-3 0-8020-9935-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A New World - Modern Spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s -- PART ONE TABLE TALKS: SEANCE AS CULTURAL METAPHOR -- 1. Seance as Test, or, Russian Writers at a Spiritualist Rendezvous -- 2. Russian Glubbdubdrib: The Shade of False Dimitry and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism -- 3. Dead Poets' Society: Pushkin's Shade in Russian Cultural Mythology of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- PART TWO REALIST EXORCISM: SPIRITUALISM AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION OF THE 1860s TO 1880s -- 4. Flickering Hands: The Spiritualist Realism of Nikolai Vagner -- 5. The Middle World: The Realist Spiritualism of Saltykov-Shchedrin -- 6. The Underworld: Dostoevsky's Ontological Realism -- 7. The (Dis)infection: Art and Hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy -- Epilogue: The Spirit of Literature - Reflections on Leskov's Artistic Spiritualism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexThe culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit communication, and materialization of the 'spirits.' Ghostly Paradoxes examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two disparate movements influenced each other.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 is 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.Russian literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and spiritualismRussiaRealism in literatureSpiritualismRussiaHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Russian literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and spiritualismRealism in literature.SpiritualismHistory891.709003Vinit͡skiĭ I. I͡U(Ilʹi͡a I͡Urʹevich),1969-989149MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458629103321Ghostly paradoxes2262187UNINA