Ian M Helfant

That Savage Gaze

Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Imperial Russiäs large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781618118431
• ISBN-10: 1618118439
• Artikelnr.: 53018473

Autorenporträt

Ian M. Helfant holds a joint position in Russian & Eurasian Studies and Environmental Studies at Colgate University, where he began teaching in 1998. His previous publications include The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia and many articles on imperial Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Translation and Transliteration Acknowledgments     Introduction Chapter 1             Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace                                           Chapter 2 The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison                                 Chapter 3 Chekhov
s
Hydrophobia,
Kuzminskayäs
The Rabid Wolf,
and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur
s Panacea                                             Chapter 4 Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator                                             Conclusion                                                         Endnotes Bibliography