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Ghostly Paradoxes is 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations Introduction: A New World - Modern Spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s
PART ONE TABLE TALKS: SEANCE AS CULTURAL METAPHOR
1 Seance as Test, or, Russian Writers at a Spiritualist Rendezvous
2 Russian Glubbdubdrib: The Shade of False Dimitry and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism
3 Dead Poets’ Society: Pushkin’s Shade in Russian Cultural Mythology of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
PART TWO REALIST EXORCISM: SPIRITUALISM AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION OF THE 1860s TO 1880s
4 Flickering Hands: The Spiritualist Realism of Nikolai Vagner
5 The Middle World: The Realist Spiritualism of Saltykov-Shchedrin
6 The Underworld: Dostoevsky’s Ontological Realism
7 The (Dis)infection: Art and Hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy
Epilogue: The Spirit of Literature - Reflections on Leskov’s Artistic Spiritualism
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ilya Vinitsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Zusammenfassung
Ghostly Paradoxes is 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.
