Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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