TY - BOOK AU - Sobol,Valeria TI - Haunted empire: Gothic and the Russian imperial uncanny T2 - NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies SN - 9781501750588 AV - PG3098.G68 S63 2020eb U1 - 891.73/08729 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca PB - Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian KW - History and criticism KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - Ukrainian fiction KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature KW - Roman ukrainien KW - Histoire et critique KW - Impérialisme dans la littérature KW - Inquiétante étrangeté (Psychanalyse) dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Russian & Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc 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 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://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2439183 ER -