Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia, by Victoria Frede

"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...

The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century

The Society of Jesus and the Jesuits in Russia In the sixteenth century, St Ignatius of Loyola had a dramatic conversion experience, which he later wrote about in his autobiography. He was a Spanish knight who had led a secular life until, whilst recovering from a major injury suffered in battle, he took up spiritual reading, including the lives of saints, and chose Christ as his hero. His most...

The Nineteenth Psalm in the Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

2 The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showeth his handiwork. 3 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. 4 There is no speech nor language, Their voice is unheard. 5 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 6 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamb...

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.

Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...