Haunted Empire : : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / / Valeria Sobol.
Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity.Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian empire is a key literary form that enacts deep...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction. From the Island of Bornholm to Taman′: The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny
- Part I. The North
- 1. A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin’s “The Island of Bornholm”
- 2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s
- 3. “Gloomy Finland” and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation
- Part II. The South
- 4 . Ukraine: Russia’s Uncanny Double
- 5. On Mimicry and Ukrainians: Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel′sky’s The Convent Graduate
- 6. ’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index