That Savage Gaze : : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination / / Ian M. Helfant.
Imperial 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Unknown Nineteenth Century
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Index