| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages) : illustrations, music |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index |
| Notes |
Includes some text in Russian |
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Online resource; title from PDF title (JSTOR, viewed March 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and spiritualism -- Russia
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Realism in literature.
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Spiritualism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
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Intellectual life
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Literature and spiritualism
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Realism in literature
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Russian literature
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Spiritualism
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125800
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Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125825
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009517566 |
| ISBN |
9781442697959 |
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1442697954 |
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0802099351 |
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9780802099358 |
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