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Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny /

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"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"--

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Main Author: Sobol, Valeria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Ukrainian fiction > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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