Libertinage in Russian culture and literature : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / / by Alexei Lalo.

• Superior document: Russian history and culture, v. 8
• Author: Lalo, Alexei.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Russian history and culture ; RH8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century,...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques
• Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence
• Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov
• Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age
• Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing
• Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel
• Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry
• Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.