Valeria Sobol

Haunted Empire

Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature (the themes of horror, medieval barbarity, darkness, and transgression) frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity"--

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Produktdetails

• NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781501770104
• ISBN-10: 1501770101
• Artikelnr.: 68315993

Autorenporträt

Valeria Sobol

Inhaltsangabe

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 Pogorelsky's
The Convent Graduate
6. 'Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine