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Informationen zum Autor Katherine Bowers is a Research Associate in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge and holds a Research Fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge. Ani Kokobobo is an Assistant Professor in the Slavic Department at the University of Kansas, where she received a Hall Center for the Humanities fellowship. Klappentext An essay collection that explores Russian literature and culture in relation to the late nineteenth-century fin de siècle. Zusammenfassung An essay collection that explores late nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture through close study of the ways in which writers, including Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov, approached the fin de siècle when the golden age of Russian realism was coming to an end. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the fin-de-siècle mood in Russian literature Ani Kokobobo and Katherine Bowers; 1. The Russian Rougon-Macquart: degeneration and biological determinism in The Golovlev Family Kate Holland; 2. The hiding places of the self in Dostoevsky's Adolescent Yuri Corrigan; 3. A childhood's garden of despair: Dostoevsky and 'The Boy at Christ's Christmas Party' Robin Feuer Miller; 4. The railway and the elemental force: Slavophilism, Pan-Slavism, and apocalyptic anxieties in Anna Karenina Alexander Burry and S. Ceilidh Orr; 5. 'Mister Russian Beast': civilization's discontents in Turgenev Emma Lieber; 6. Masculine degeneration in Dostoevsky's Demons Connor Doak; 7. The burden of superfluity: reconsidering female heroism in Chekhov's The Seagull Jenny Kaminer; 8. The fall of the house: Gothic narrative and the decline of the Russian family Katherine Bowers; 9. Corpses of desire and convention: Tolstoy's and Artsybashev's grotesque realism Ani Kokobobo; 10. The little man in the overcoat: Gogol and Krzhizhanovsky Muireann Maguire; 11. Icons, eclipses and stepping off the train: Vladimir Korolenko and the Ocherk Jane Costlow; 12. Decadent ecosystems in Uncle Vanya: a chorographic meditation Thomas Newlin; 13. The mute body: Leonid Andreev's abject realism Edith W. Clowes; 14. The thinking oyster: Turgenev's 'Drama of Dying' as the decay of Russian realism Ilya Vinitsky; 15. An afterword on the potential of ends Caryl Emerson; Bibliography....
