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OverviewImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gazeexplores 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian M. HelfantPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Weight: 0.825kg ISBN: 9781618118431ISBN 10: 1618118439 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 06 September 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsA 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 BibliographyReviewsAlthough 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 Author InformationIan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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