“Although Ian Helfant teaches Russian literature and language at Colgate University, That Savage Gaze presents the reader with a historical narrative: a shift in depictions of wolves in Russian literature during the Golden and Silver Ages, and especially in those isolated moments when human characters look directly into the eyes of wild animals. … Helfant provides scholars with an illuminating instance when literature, medicine, and environmental ethics converged, leading to surprising outcomes.” —Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, the Russian Review Vol. 78, No. 3

A Note on Translation and Transliteration
Acknowledgments    

Introduction

Chapter 1            
Harnessing the Domestic to Confront the Wild: Borzoi Wolf Hunting and Masculine Aggression in War and Peace                                          

Chapter 2
The Rise of Hunting Societies, the Professionalization of Wolf Expertise, and the Legal Sanctioning of Predator Control with Guns and Poison                                

Chapter 3
Chekhov’s “Hydrophobia,” Kuzminskaya’s “The Rabid Wolf,” and the Fear of Bestial Madness on the Eve of Pasteur’s Panacea                                            

Chapter 4
Fissures in the Flock: Wolf Hounding, the Humane Society, and the Literary Redemption of a Feared Predator                                            
Conclusion                                                        

Endnotes
Bibliography