Writing Fear

Russian Realism and the Gothic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian literature’s engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period.Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre’s function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-04-15
Mått159 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487526924
UtmärkelserWinner of 2022 Outstanding Acedemic Title awarded by Choice 2022 (United States)

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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)