Ghostly paradoxes : modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism / Ilya Vinitsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinit︠s︡kiĭ, I. I︠U︡. (Ilʹi︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevich), 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Russian literature.

Literature and spiritualism--Russia.

Literature and spiritualism.

Realism in literature.

Spiritualism--Russia--History--19th century.

Spiritualism.

Russia--History--Alexander II, 1855-1881.

Russia.

Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes ;s an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: A new world : modern spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s

Seance as test, or, Russian writers at a spiritualist rendezvous

Russian glubbdubdrib : the shade of false Dimitry and Russian historical imagination in the age of realism

Dead poets' society : Pushkin's shade in Russian cultural mythology of the second half of the nineteenth century

Flickering hands : the spiritualist realism of Nikolai Vagner

The middle world : the realist spiritualism of Saltykov-Schedrin

The underworld : Dostoevsky's ontological realism

The (dis)infection : art and hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy

Epilogue: The spirit of literature : reflections on Leskov's artistic spiritualism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3151-6

1-4426-9795-4

OCLC:

707712754