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This text shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. The book argues that the persistent Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire enact deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. It brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as the book explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms 'the imperial uncanny.' Focusing on two spaces of 'the imperial uncanny' - the Baltic 'North'/Finland and the Ukrainian 'South' - the book reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Russian --- Ukrainian fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. --- Russian gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Russian fiction --- History and criticism. --- Ukrainian literature --- Supernatural, Ukraine, North South Paradigm, Gothic literature.

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The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. Countering traditional scholarly views of the 'rise' of 'the gothic novel' on the one hand, and, on the other, Irish Romantic literature, this study persuasively re-integrates a body of now overlooked works into the history of the literary gothic as it emerged across Ireland, Britain, and Europe between 1760 and 1829. Its twinned quantitative and qualitative analysis of neglected Irish texts produces a new formal, generic, and ideological map of gothic literary production in this period, persuasively positioning Irish works and authors at the centre of a new critical paradigm with which to understand both Irish Romantic and gothic literary production.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- English literature --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- Literature --- gothic novel --- Ireland --- Horace Walpole --- The Castle of Otranto --- Thomas Leland --- Longsword --- The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley --- gothic genre --- gothic --- literature --- eigteenth century --- Irish literature --- England

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»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the ›closet‹ - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.

American Studies. --- British Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Gothic Novel. --- Henry James. --- Homosexuality. --- Literary Studies. --- Masculinity. --- Queer. --- Sensation Novel. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Masculinity in literature. --- Erotic literature, English --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- James, Henry, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature; Gender; Queer; Masculinity; Homosexuality; Gothic Novel; Sensation Novel; Henry James; Literary Studies; British Studies; American Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies --- Literature --- Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- History and criticism