Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination

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Index 2 8 4 Adam and Eve, 178 Adamson, Joseph, 262n82 Adventures of Themistocles, The (Emin), 32, 46 Advice to Young Officers (Gerakov), 218n80 Aeneid (Virgil), 216n56 age reversal in Goncharov’s Ordinary Story, 95, 235n5 alcoholism in Chekhov, 190–91 amor hereos, 7–8, 205n27 Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 52, 202n5, 206n36 animals: Chernyshevsky on, 242n6; frog experiments, 249n39; Haller’s experiments on, 37, 40, 49; Iurkevich on, 243n10 animists, 25, 45, 49 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy): ball scene and shame of exposure, 173–79, 262n80; Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? compared to, 163–65, 171–72, 187; desperate love in, 218n89; heroine compared to Hélène in War and Peace, 263n104; illness, references to, 257n21; individuality in War and Peace and, 264n108; konsilium scene and diagnosis, 163–70, 178, 249n31; medical model in, 186–87; nature vs. culture and, 185–86; psychological model in, 165, 168, 181, 184, 186–87; Schopenhauer and, 161; shamesickness vs. lovesickness, 170–73; subversion of lovesickness tradition, 189; therapies and self-knowledge in, 179–88 “Anthropological Principle in Philosophy, The” (Chernyshevsky), 125–26, 127, 147, 242n8, 248n30 Antiochus and Stratonice, tale of: body and psyche in, 25; diagnosis in, 6–7; and medical model vs. psychological model, 57–59; name of beloved in, 145; Radishchev on, 218n78; suicidal element in, 203n16 Antonovich, M., 127 appearance, physical: in Goncharov’s Ordinary Story, 97–98, 117; in Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, 76; physiognomy and, 212n15; in The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn, 10, 60; in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, 176 appearances and phenomenalism, 166–67, 169, 254n86. See also vision, seeing, and looking Arabic physicians, 204n22 Aristotle, 4, 24–25, 28, 203n11 Arnald of Villanova, 204n23 Art of Love, The (Ovid), 5–6, 64 assemblies, Peter the Great’s introduction of, 11 atrophia nervorum, 142 Attempt to Introduce a Physiological Basis into Psychic Processes (Sechenov), 131. See also Reflexes of the Brain (Sechenov) Augustine, St., 9, 206n35, 234n60 Austen, Jane, 102 “Avant-propos à la Comédie humaine” (Balzac), 236n14 Avicenna, 7 backache in Goncharov’s Ordinary Story, 102–3, 237n30 Bagno, V. E., 207n46 Ball, The (Baratynsky), 61 Balzac, Honoré de, 112, 236n14 Baratynsky, Evgenii, 61, 246n8 Bayle, Pierre, 212n17 beauty: in Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done?, 249n37; imprinting of, 25, 211n10; Socrates on encounter with, 4; in Tolstoy ’s Anna Karenina, 174–76, 183; withering or fading, 10–11, 14, 60, 93, 208n55 Belinsky, Vissarion: Feuerbach and, 226n43; on Goncharov’s Ordinary Story, 96– 98, 236nn19–20; on Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, 84, 232n40; “Literary Reveries,” 132; and movement away from Romanticism , 69–70; on physiology, 68, 72; on susceptibilité, 236n15 Bernard, Claude: Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and, 144, 153–56; on diagnosis, 142–43; Dostoevsky and, 250n41, 253n78; on experimentation, 157, 250n39; Russian National Library and, 253n79 Bernard of Gordon, 204n23 Bernoulli, Daniel, 33, 215n49 Biblioteka dlia chteniia (Library for Reading, journal), 67, 76–77 Bichat, Xavier, 170 “Biological Grounding of Pessimism, The” (Chizh), 192, 266n11 black bile, 3–4 blind love, 9 blood: Aristotle on soul and, 28; Descartes vs. Harvey on, 211n11; fever and, 46; flame of love in, 43; in humoral theory, 3 bloodletting in Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, 81 blood vessels, 33 body: Cartesian mechanistic model of, 25, 211n12; Feuerbach’s “philosophy of the body,” 226n43; realist localizations vs. Romanticism, 69–70; Tolstoy and, 161; vs. soul, in medical vs. psychological model, 58–59. See also medical model; mind/soul-body interaction; physiology Boerhaave, Hermann, 144 Boileau, Nicolas, 35–37 Bokov, Petr, 250nn43–45 bolezn’ (illness or pain), 210n68 Bolotov, A. T., 238n49 Bonnet, Charles, 214n39 boredom in Byronic Romanticism, 84, 85 Brachet, Jean-Louis, 113–14, 239n50, 239n58 brain: Belinsky on, 69; fevers and, 39; as pump, 33; Sechenov on, 129–30, 243n27; vs. heart as seat of soul, 28–35, 42–43, 124–25; Willis on, 213n24 Breuer, Joseph, 233n54 Brief Information about a Hydropathic Institution in Lopukhinka, 230n21 Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 154, 250n41 Bunin, Ivan, 196–97, 198 Burton, Robert, 8, 52, 109, 202n5, 204n25, 206n36 Byford, Andy, 149, 150, 251n59, 253n69, 260n53 Byron, Lord, 84–85 Byronism vs. Schillerianism, 84–85 Cartesian dualism, 25–26, 28, 126. See also mind/soul-body interaction “Case from Practice, A” (Chekhov), 191–92, 256n36 causality: fever and, 45–46; in Herzen’s Who Is to Blame?, 232n42; hysteria and, 114, 239n50; in Karamzin’s “Evgenii and Iuliia,” 48; rhetoric of, in Goncharov’s...