Ghostly paradoxes
Subtitle: modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism
By: Ilya Vinitsky
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780802099358
Subjects: Spiritualism; Literature and spiritualism; Realism in literature; Russian literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-239) and index.

Includes some text in Russian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a new world; title: modern spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s; title: Seance as test, or, Russian writers at a spiritualist rendezvous; title: Russian glubbdubdrib: the shade of false Dimitry and Russian historical imagination in the age of realism; title: Dead poets' society: Pushkin's shade in Russian cultural mythology of the second half of the nineteenth century; title: Flickering hands: the spiritualist realism of Nikolai Vagner; title: The middle world: the realist spiritualism of Saltykov-Schedrin; title: The underworld: Dostoevsky's ontological realism; title: The (dis)infection: art and hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy; title: Epilogue: the spirit of literature: reflections on Leskov's artistic spiritualism.