Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination / Valeria Sobol.

  • Sobol, Valeria.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Also known as

Lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination

Description

"The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol argues that Russian writers were deeply preoccupied with the nature of romantic relationships and were persistent in their use of lovesickness not simply as a traditional theme but as a way to address pressing philosophical, ethical, and ideological concerns through a recognizable literary trope. Sobol examines stereotypes about the damaging effects of romantic love and offers a short history of the topos of lovesickness in Western literature and medicine." -- Back cover.

Publication/Creation

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xix, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    PQE.AI.31
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  • 9780295988955
  • 0295988959
  • 9780295988962
  • 0295988967