{"product_id":"writing-fear-katherine-bowers-9781487526924","title":"Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside - a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eits legacy is much more enduring \u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003epersisting within later Russian literary movements \u003ci\u003e. Writing Fear \u003c\/i\u003eexplores Russian literature's engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre's function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, \u003ci\u003eWriting Fear \u003c\/i\u003echallenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Bowers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 148752692X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487526924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2022","brand":"Katherine Bowers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059220541695,"sku":"9781487526924","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c44dd67-d40a-46b8-8cd6-24c103ccb1a1.jpg?v=1685056924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-fear-katherine-bowers-9781487526924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}