03540nam 22006015 450 991082660130332120191221113333.01-61811-866-810.1515/9781618118660(CKB)4100000007006673(MiAaPQ)EBC5522665(DE-B1597)541040(OCoLC)1038021536(DE-B1597)9781618118660(EXLCZ)99410000000700667320191221d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThat Savage Gaze Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination /Ian M. HelfantBoston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (200 pages)Unknown Nineteenth Century1-61811-843-9 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace -- CHAPTER 2. The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison -- CHAPTER 3. Chekhov's "Hydrophobia," Kuzminskaya's "The Rabid Wolf," and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur's Panacea -- CHAPTER 4. Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- IndexImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. It examines the ways in which hunters, writers, conservationists, members of animal protection societies, scientists, doctors, government officials and others contested Russia's "Wolf Problem" and the particular threat posed by rabid wolves. It elucidates the ways in which wolves became intertwined with Russian identity both domestically and abroad. It argues that wolves played a foundational role in Russians' conceptions of the natural world in ways that reverberated throughout Russian society, providing insights into broader aspects of Russian culture and history as well as the opportunities and challenges that modernity posed for the Russian empire.Unknown nineteenth century.Gray wolfRussiaHistory19th centuryGray wolfControlSocial aspectsRussiaHistory19th centuryRussian literature19th centuryHistory and criticismBorzois.Ecocriticism.History of medicine.Human-animal studies.Hunting.Rabies.Russia.Wolves.Gray wolfHistoryGray wolfControlSocial aspectsHistoryRussian literatureHistory and criticism.599.773Helfant Ian M., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1666640DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910826601303321That Savage Gaze4026001UNINA