Writing Fear : Russian Realism and the Gothic

• Autore: Bowers Katherine
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Disciplina: 891.73087290903
• Soggetto topico: Gothic revival (Literature) - Russia; Realism in literature; Russian fiction - European influences; Russian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century
• Soggetto geografico: Russia
• Soggetto non controllato: Chekhov; Dostoevsky; Gogol; Pushkin; Romanticism; Russian literature; Woman Question; genre studies; gothic fiction; gothic studies; literary realism; narrative; nineteenth century Russian novel; the novel
• 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."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Fear
• ISBN: 9781487526931; 9781487526924
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861960603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II