Slavic sins of the flesh [electronic resource] : food, sex, and carnal appetite in nineteenth-century Russian fiction / Ronald D. LeBlanc.
"This work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Slavic Sins of the Flesh sheds new light on classic literary creations as it examines how authors Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Grigorii Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy used eating in their works as a trope for male sexual desire. The treatment of carnal desire in these renowned works of fiction stimulated a generation of young writers to challenge Russian culture's anti-eroticism, supreme spirituality, and utter disregard for the life of the body, so firmly rooted in centuries of ideological domination by the Orthodox Church."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN: 9781584658245 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 158465824X (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 338 p.)
- Publisher: Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; c2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-322) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Food and sex in Russian literature -- Eating as power : Dostoevsky and carnivorousness -- Eating as pleasure : Tolstoy and Voluptuousness -- Carnality and Morality in Fin de Siècle and revolutionary Russia -- Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Human animal. |
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