LEADER 03676nam 2200589 450 001 9910651672503321 005 20230315082609.0 010 $a1-5017-5058-5 010 $a1-5017-5057-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501750595 035 $a(CKB)5590000000000010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5972947 035 $a(DE-B1597)541694 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501750595 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535332 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930128 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000000010 100 $a20210416e20212020 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHaunted empire $eGothic and the Russian imperial uncanny /$fValeria Sobol$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aIthaca :$cNorthern Illinois University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aNIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2020. 311 $a1-5017-5059-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Transliteration and Translation --$tIntroduction. From the Island of Bornholm to Taman?: The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny --$t1. A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin?s ?The Island of Bornholm? --$t2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s --$t3. ?Gloomy Finland? and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation --$t4 . Ukraine: Russia?s Uncanny Double --$t5. On Mimicry and Ukrainians: Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel?sky?s The Convent Graduate --$t6. ?Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish?s Gothic Ukraine --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 8 $aThis text shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. The book argues that the persistent Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire enact deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. It brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as the book explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms 'the imperial uncanny.' Focusing on two spaces of 'the imperial uncanny' - the Baltic 'North'/Finland and the Ukrainian 'South' - the book reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today. 410 0$aNIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aUkrainian fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aUncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature 610 $aSupernatural, Ukraine, North South Paradigm, Gothic literature. 615 0$aGothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aUkrainian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aUncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. 676 $a891.7308729 700 $aSobol$b Valeria$01166994 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910651672503321 996 $aHaunted empire$92874163 997 $aUNINA