Before they were Titans
Subtitle: essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
By: edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Series: Ars Rossica; Ars Rossika
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781618114303; 9781618118158
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Russian literature
Description: These ten critical essays, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century Russian literature, provide new readings on the works from the first decade of literary life of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Dostoevsky : works of the 1840s. -- I.; title: Agency, desire, and fate in Poor folk  -- Lewis Bagby ; -- II.; title: Me and my double : selfhood, consciousness, and empathy in The double  -- Gary Saul Morson ; -- III.; title: Husbands and lovers : vaudeville conventions in "Another man's wife," "The jealous husband," and The eternal husband  -- Susanne Fusso ; -- IV.; title: Dostoevsky's White nights : memoir of a Petersburg pathology  -- Dale E. Peterson ; -- V.; title: Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova  -- Elizabeth Cheresh Allen -- Part. II.; title: Tolstoy : works of the 1850s. -- VI.; title: The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art  -- Robin Feuer Miller ; -- VII.; title: Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism  -- William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir ; -- VIII.; title: Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe  -- Liza Knapp ; -- IX.; title: On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning"  -- Anne Lounsbery ; -- X.; title: Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation -- Ilya Vinitsky -- An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things /-- Caryl Emerson.