Writing Fear : Russian Realism and the Gothic / Katherine Bowers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowers, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic revival (Literature)--Russia.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Realism in literature.

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

Russian fiction.

Russian fiction--European influences.

Russia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Note on Transliteration and Translation

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Russian Realism and the Gothic

Part I. Gothic Migration

1 A Russian Reader's Gothic Library

2 Gothic Transmutations in Pushkin and Gogol

3 Russian Landscapes in a Gothic Frame

4 The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Gothic Novel

Part II. Gothic Realism

5 Physiological Petersburg, Gothic Petersburg

6 Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question

7 Political Terror and the School of Horror

8 The Fall of the House on the Russian Estate

Conclusion: Chekhov's Ghosts

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781487526948

1487526946

9781487526931

1487526938

OCLC:

1277184965