Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861–1881
by Lynn Ellen Patyk
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020 Paper: 978-0-299-31224-4
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ABOUT THIS BOOK Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed—and a violent assault on autocratic authority. Deftly combining riveting historical narrative with penetrating literary analysis of major and minor works, Patyk’s groundbreaking book reveals the power of the word to spawn deeds and the power of literature to usher new realities into the world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lynn Ellen Patyk is an associate professor of Russian at Dartmouth College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: "Just You Wait! (Uzho tebe!)"
Part One: Enigmas of A-synchrony
1. What Do Nihilists Do?
2. "Very Dangerous!"
3. Extraordinary Men and Gloomy Monsters
4. "Daring and Original Things" (Assez causé!
5. "Vous trouvez que l'assassinat est grandeur d'âme?"
6. Spoiling One Idea to Save Another
7. A Gloomier Catechism
Part Two: Apparitional Terrorism in Demons
1. "Again, Like Before"
2. "The Only Possible Explanation of All These Wonders"
3. Tarantulas with a Heart?
4. Dostoevsky's Counterterrorism: "The First Step"
5. Dostoevsky's Counterterrorism (Continued): Laughter through Fear
6. The Unity of All Terrorism(s)
Part Three: "The Little Demon Sitting on Your Heart"
1. A Change of Heart
2. An Original Plan
3. Emotions on Trial: Witness Testimony and the Prosecution
4. Emotions on Trial II: The Defense
5. Whose Rebellion?
6. False Christs and Little Devils
7. "That Is the Whole Answer"
8. The Khokhlakova Principle: Russian Society in the Mirror of Revolutionary Terrorism
9. Again, Like Before (Again
Part Four: The Beautiful Dead (Deed)
1. Writing in Blood
2. An Icon with Death
3. Celebrity Icons
4. Terror in Search of a Face
Epilogue: "All of Europe Thrills to the Horror"
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861–1881
by Lynn Ellen Patyk
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020 Paper: 978-0-299-31224-4
Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed—and a violent assault on autocratic authority. Deftly combining riveting historical narrative with penetrating literary analysis of major and minor works, Patyk’s groundbreaking book reveals the power of the word to spawn deeds and the power of literature to usher new realities into the world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lynn Ellen Patyk is an associate professor of Russian at Dartmouth College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: "Just You Wait! (Uzho tebe!)"
Part One: Enigmas of A-synchrony
1. What Do Nihilists Do?
2. "Very Dangerous!"
3. Extraordinary Men and Gloomy Monsters
4. "Daring and Original Things" (Assez causé!
5. "Vous trouvez que l'assassinat est grandeur d'âme?"
6. Spoiling One Idea to Save Another
7. A Gloomier Catechism
Part Two: Apparitional Terrorism in Demons
1. "Again, Like Before"
2. "The Only Possible Explanation of All These Wonders"
3. Tarantulas with a Heart?
4. Dostoevsky's Counterterrorism: "The First Step"
5. Dostoevsky's Counterterrorism (Continued): Laughter through Fear
6. The Unity of All Terrorism(s)
Part Three: "The Little Demon Sitting on Your Heart"
1. A Change of Heart
2. An Original Plan
3. Emotions on Trial: Witness Testimony and the Prosecution
4. Emotions on Trial II: The Defense
5. Whose Rebellion?
6. False Christs and Little Devils
7. "That Is the Whole Answer"
8. The Khokhlakova Principle: Russian Society in the Mirror of Revolutionary Terrorism
9. Again, Like Before (Again
Part Four: The Beautiful Dead (Deed)
1. Writing in Blood
2. An Icon with Death
3. Celebrity Icons
4. Terror in Search of a Face
Epilogue: "All of Europe Thrills to the Horror"
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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