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Book SynopsisWriting Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation List of Illustrations Introduction: Russian Realism and the Gothic Part One: Gothic Migration 1. The 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 Two: 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 Works Cited Index
