In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside - a literary
curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In
fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later
Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores 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. Bowers 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, Writing Fear challenges the conventional
literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.
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