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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Description: Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (U Toronto Press, 2022) argues that nineteenth-century Russian writers actively engaged with narrative models borrowed from European gothic fiction to articulate experiences such as fear, dread, and anxiety in realist literature. By examining a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address issue such as urban life, the women question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family, Katherine Bowers reveals the myriad ways in which political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism.Katherine Bowers is an Associate Professor within the Dep...