{"product_id":"writing-fear-9781487526924","title":"Writing Fear","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eCHOICE Connect\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409158938967,"sku":"9781487526924","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487526924.jpg?v=1730505685","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-fear-9781487526924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}