Introduction: New UK Research in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

"Russian nervousness": neurasthenia and national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.

"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...

A Spiritual and Moral Pursuit of Russian Literature in the 19th Century (Axiological Aspect of Literary Research)

The study of the axiological problems in literary studies is a fundamental direction of modern Russian Philology. In this paper, we will first conside, the search process for the orientations of values of Russian writers of the classical period of Russian literature in the 19th century; and second, the spiritual themselves foundations as ideological constants of the writers. The pursuit of Russ...

(c) Modern Humanities Research Assn HEINE’S RUSSIAN DOPPELGA• NGER: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF HIS POETRY

Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...

Guardians and angels. Parents and children in nineteenth-century literature

Medical America in the nineteenth century. Readings from the literature

American medicine was derivative in its origins. Beginning as an element of a culture brought from Europe by the first settlers, it was influenced by European sources and trends throughout much of its evolution. According to Dixon Ryan Fox, cultural transfers of this kind occur in four stages. First, a few educated in the mother country emigrate to the new settlement; then, the colonial youth a...