Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature
frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial
and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent
presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire
is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural
tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience.
Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with
close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she
explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of
Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms
"the imperial uncanny." Focusing on two spaces of the imperial
uncanny-the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south-Haunted
Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals
the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still
at work today.
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