Writing Fear

Katherine Bowers is an associate professor in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Russian Realism and the GothicPart One: Gothic Migration1. The Russian Reader’s Gothic Library2. Gothic Transmutations in Pushkin and Gogol3. Russian Landscapes in a Gothic Frame4. The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Gothic NovelPart Two: Gothic Realism5. Physiological Petersburg, Gothic Petersburg6. Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question 7. Political Terror and the School of Horror8. The Fall of the House on the Russian EstateConclusion: Chekhov’s GhostsWorks CitedIndex

"Bowers’s Writing Fear illuminates… how major Russian realists utilized the tropes of a genre generally considered realism’s perfect antithesis. An innovative, captivating study."- B.J. Nieubuurt, University of Michigan (CHOICE Connect) "Appealing both for the insightful readings of specific works and for the big picture about Russian Realism’s encounters with the Gothic that ultimately emerges. Writing Fear is likely to be of keen interest to those who study nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as to colleagues who study non-Russian literary traditions and have an interest in the Gothic." - Bella Grigoryan, University of Pittsburgh (The Russian Review) "Writing Fear is an innovative, elegantly written book, underpinned by excellent scholarship. As such, it makes an important contribution not only to Russian studies, but to the literary history of nineteenth-century Gothic as a whole."- Margarita Vaysman, University of St Andrews (Slavonic and East European Review)