TY - BOOK AU - Sobol,Valeria ED - Project Muse. TI - Haunted Empire : : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / T2 - NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies SN - 9781501750595 AV - PG3098.G68 U1 - 891.73/08729 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Ukrainian fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/77385/ ER -