Magnetic Love and tears-guides: romantic cliches in the epistolary and literary legacy of I. A. Goncharov

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A number of researchers have repeatedly commented on the autobiographical nature of I. A. Goncharov’s prose, tracing figurative and quotation parallels in his epistolary and literary texts. Nevertheless, in certain cases, his letters and works feature typological rather than reminiscent connections, engaging with external sources, e. g. borrowing ready-made romantic formulas of the secular novelas of the 1830s. Samples of such borrowings are the recurring motifs of love-electricity, passion-ailment, magnetic/hypnotic gaze and unequal love. Therefore, this article is an attempt to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the emergence of magnetic analogies in the Romantic fiction of the early 19th century, as well as to analyze similar typological parallels in Goncharov’s epistolary legacy.

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Elena M. Filippova

Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

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