That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination

Author:   Ian M. Helfant
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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9781644691342


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Format:   Paperback
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That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination


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Imperial Russia’s 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. It examines the ways in which hunters, writers, conservationists, members of animal protection societies, scientists, doctors, government officials and others contested Russia’s “Wolf Problem” and the particular threat posed by rabid wolves. It elucidates the ways in which wolves became intertwined with Russian identity both domestically and abroad. It argues that wolves played a foundational role in Russians’ conceptions of the natural world in ways that reverberated throughout Russian society, providing insights into broader aspects of Russian culture and history as well as the opportunities and challenges that modernity posed for the Russian empire.

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Author:   Ian M. Helfant
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781644691342


ISBN 10:   1644691345
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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, Kuzminskaya's 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

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Although Ian Helfant teaches Russian literature and language at Colgate University, That Savage Gaze presents the reader with a historical narrative: a shift in depictions of wolves in Russian literature during the Golden and Silver Ages, and especially in those isolated moments when human characters look directly into the eyes of wild animals. ... Helfant provides scholars with an illuminating instance when literature, medicine, and environmental ethics converged, leading to surprising outcomes. --Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, the Russian Review Vol. 78, No. 3 --Stephen Brain The Russian Review


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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.

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