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Haunted empire : Gothic and the Russian imperial uncanny / Valeria Sobol.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studiesPublisher: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501750588
  • 1501750585
  • 9781501750595
  • 1501750593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Haunted empire.DDC classification:
  • 891.73/08729 23
LOC classification:
  • PG3098.G68 S63 2020eb
Online resources:
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.

"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.

In English.

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