Sobol, Valeria,

Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / Valeria Sobol. - 1 online resource (216 pages). - NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

"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"--

9781501750595




Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Ukrainian fiction--History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PG3098.G68

891.73/08729