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.
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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"--
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.