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Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sobol, Valeria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2009]
Series:Literary conjugations.
Subjects:
Love in literature.
Lovesickness in literature.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The anatomy of feeling and the mind-body problem in Russian sentimentalism
  • Diagnosing love : tradition
  • "Febris erotica" in Herzen's Who is to blame?
  • An ordinary story : Goncharov's romantic patients
  • The "question of the soul" in the age of positivism
  • What is to be done about a lovesick woman? : Chernyshevsky's treatment
  • From lovesickness to shamesickness : Tolstoy's solution.