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Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny

Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny

Sobol, Valeria

Hardcover

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501750577
ISBN13: 9781501750571
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity.

Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms the imperial uncanny. Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny--the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south--Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.

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