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That savage gaze : wolves in the nineteenth-century Russian imagination /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Unknown nineteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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