Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / Valeria Sobol.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501750595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Haunted empireDDC classification:
  • 891.73/08729 23
LOC classification:
  • PG3098.G68
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Contents:
Introduction : From the Island of Bornholm to Taman' : The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny -- A Gothic Prelude : Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm" -- In search of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation -- Ukraine : Russia's Uncanny Double -- On Mimicry and Ukrainians : Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel'sky's The Convent Graduate -- 'Tis Eighty Years Since : Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : From the Island of Bornholm to Taman' : The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny -- A Gothic Prelude : Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm" -- In search of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation -- Ukraine : Russia's Uncanny Double -- On Mimicry and Ukrainians : Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel'sky's The Convent Graduate -- 'Tis Eighty Years Since : Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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