{"product_id":"ghostly-paradoxes-modern-spiritualism-and-russian-culture-in-the-age-of-realism-hardback-9780802099358","title":"Ghostly Paradoxes; Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism (Hardback) 9780802099358","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGhostly Paradoxes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIlya Vinitsky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802099358\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Vinitsky has skillfully integrated cultural phenomenon and shown how they touched upon the deep questions of faith, the soul and immorality that continued to reverberate among those segments of Russian society and writers, who refused to capitulate to the pressure of materialism. This book will be most welcome by those interested in Russian Realism, cultural studies, and Russian spiritualism.' - George Mihaychuk, \u003cem\u003eCanadian Slavonic Papers\u003c\/em\u003e, vol 52:1-2:2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit communication, and materialization of the 'spirits.' \u003cem\u003eGhostly Paradoxes\u003c\/em\u003e examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two disparate movements influenced each other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForegrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. \u003cem\u003eGhostly Paradoxes\u003c\/em\u003e is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: A New World – Modern Spiritualism in Russia, 1853–1870s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE TABLE TALKS: SEANCE AS CULTURAL METAPHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1 Seance as Test, or, Russian Writers at a Spiritualist Rendezvous\u003cbr\u003e2 Russian Glubbdubdrib: The Shade of False Dimitry and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism\u003cbr\u003e3 Dead Poets\u0026amp;#x2019; Society: Pushkin\u0026amp;#x2019;s Shade in Russian Cultural Mythology of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO REALIST EXORCISM: SPIRITUALISM AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION OF THE 1860s TO 1880s\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4 Flickering Hands: The Spiritualist Realism of Nikolai Vagner\u003cbr\u003e5 The Middle World: The Realist Spiritualism of Saltykov-Shchedrin\u003cbr\u003e6 The Underworld: Dostoevsky\u0026amp;#x2019;s Ontological Realism\u003cbr\u003e7 The (Dis)infection: Art and Hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Spirit of Literature – Reflections on Leskov\u0026amp;#x2019;s Artistic Spiritualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545922629912,"sku":"9780802099358","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ghostly-paradoxes-modern-spiritualism-and-russian-culture-in-the-age-of-realism-hardback-9780802099358","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}