Aesthetics of Darkness Gothic in Russian Literature

Gothic as a historical stamp, an art movement, a subculture and an academic research area, respectively, continued on the path from history with architecture, and after penetrating literature from there, it entered the agenda of contemporary studies that dealt with literary products from a sociological perspective, passing through the lens of attention to society. This term, which takes its name from the invasion and plundering of the Gothic tribes in 410 AD, was first used by the Italian art historian Giorgio Vasari in 1550 to describe an architectural style as a substitute for the concept of "barbarian" and has since indicated the uncivilized.
This book; It examines the adaptations of the Gothic tradition, which owes its rebirth to its adoption by a group of literary figures in the late 18th century, in Russian literature, from Orest Somov to Nikolay Polevoy, from Vsevolod Garşin to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in line with contemporary Gothic theories. For this purpose, he traces the “barbarian” identities of the Gothic tribes, which first permeated the historiography and then the art history terminology after their raids on Rome, in the orbit of Gothic themes such as madness and suicide, and contemporary classifications such as Urban Gothic and the uncanny, with the method of sociological criticism.