Febris Erotica - Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Valeria Sobol is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Illinois. Klappentext What underlies the stereotype about the destructive power of romantic love and why do Russian writers so willingly employ this cliché? Zusammenfassung Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature! examining what underlies the stereotype about the destructive power of romantic love and why Russian writers so willingly employ this cliche. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations Introduction: Cases in History PART I / ANATOMY 1. The Anatomy of Feeling and the Mind-Body Problem in Russian Sentimentalism PART II / DIAGNOSTICS 2. Diagnosing Love: Tradition 3. " Febris Erotica " in Herzen's Who Is to Blame? 4. An Ordinary Story: Goncharov's Romantic Patients PART III / THERAPY 5. The "Question of the Soul" in the Age of Positivism 6. What Is to Be Done about a Lovesick Woman? Chernyshevsky's Treatment 7. From Lovesickness to Shamesickness: Tolstoy's Solution Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Valeria Sobol
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2009
• EAN: 9780295988962
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98896-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Literary Conjugations; Literary Conjugations; Febris Erotica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Russisch, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union