Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination / Valeria Sobol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobol, Valeria.

Series:

Literary conjugations.

Literary conjugations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love in literature.

Lovesickness in literature.

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol argues that Russian writers were deeply preoccupied with the nature of romantic relationships and were persistent in their use of lovesickness not simply as a traditional theme but as a way to address pressing philosophical, ethical, and ideological concerns through a recognizable literary trope. Sobol examines stereotypes about the damaging effects of romantic love and offers a short history of the topos of lovesickness in Western literature and medicine.Read an interview with the author: http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/valeria_sobol_interview_febris_erotica_lovesickness_russian_literary_imagin/

Contents:

The anatomy of feeling and the mind-body problem in Russian sentimentalism

Diagnosing love : tradition

"Febris erotica" in Herzen's Who is to blame?

An ordinary story : Goncharov's romantic patients

The "question of the soul" in the age of positivism

What is to be done about a lovesick woman? : Chernyshevsky's treatment

From lovesickness to shamesickness : Tolstoy's solution.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295990378

0295990376

OCLC:

732605605