Erotic Utopia
The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle
Contents
Illustrations...............................................................................................ix
Preface.....................................................................................................xi
A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations.................................................................xiii
Introduction................................................................................................3
1. Lev Tolstoy as Early Modernist: Fragmenting and Dissecting the Body......................................27
2. The Meaning of The Meaning of Love: What Is Erotic about Vladimir Solov'ev's Utopia?.....................57
3. The Case of Alexander Blok: Marriage, Genealogy, Degeneration............................................89
4. Blok's Femme Fatale: History as Palimpsest...............................................................126
5. Transcending Gender: The Case of Zinaida Gippius.........................................................162
6. Religious- ... read full excerpt from Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle ebook
