Episode Details

Show Notes:

This week, Matt and Cameron wrap up part 3 of Eugene Onegin with the help of the Gothic (in research focus) Dr. Katherine Bowers. Not only will we be wrapping up Parts 7 and 8 of this novel in verse, Dr. Bowers will also be covering Tatyana’s dream from our previous episode. The topics will be wide-ranging and the education, constant. Be sure to tune in and have as much fun as we did recording this.

Major themes: Onegin is a simp, All Gothic All the Way Down, Buy Dr. Bowers' Book

More information about Dr. Bowers can be found on her website.

02:45 - Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Dr. Katherine Bowers

04:19 - William Morris

13:32 - Revealing too much familiarity with the folkways of fanfiction.net, perhaps.

27:40 “Unpacking Viazemskii’s Khalat: The Technologies of Dilettantism in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Culture” by Dr. Katherine Bowers. (Access Post Print version here)

36:16 - “Ghost Writers: Radcliffiana and the Russian Gothic Wave” by Dr. Katherine Bowers

42:32 - Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Dr. Katherine Bowers

49:21 - “Pushkin’s Tatiana” by Caryl Emerson

The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube.

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