TY - BOOK ID - 78646870 TI - That Savage Gaze : Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination PY - 2018 SN - 1618118668 9781618118660 9781618118431 1618118439 1644691345 PB - Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gray wolf KW - Russian literature KW - Canis lupus KW - Timber wolf KW - Wolf KW - Canis KW - Wolves KW - History KW - Control KW - Social aspects KW - History and criticism. KW - Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 KW - Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Borzois. KW - Ecocriticism. KW - History of medicine. KW - Human-animal studies. KW - Hunting. KW - Rabies. KW - Russia. KW - Wolves. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646870 AB - 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. ER -