Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Table of contents: title: List of I llustrations xi; title: Preface: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time xiii; title: Acknowledgments xix; title: Transliteration xxi; title: Abbreviations xxiii; title: PART I: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849; title: Chapter 1: Prelude 3; title: Chapter 2: The Family 5; title: Chapter 3: The Religious and Cultural Background 23; title: Chapter 4: The Academy of Military Engineers 38; title: Chapter 5: The Two Romanticisms 51; title: Chapter 6: The Gogol Period 61; title: Chapter 7: Poor Folk 76; title: Chapter 8: Dostoevsky and the Pléiade 86; title: Chapter 9: Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I?94; title: Chapter 10: Feuilletons and Experiments 104; title: Chapter 11: Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II?119; title: Chapter 12: The Beketov and Petrashevsky Circles 129; title: Chapter 13: Dostoevsky and Speshnev 145; title: PART II: The Y ears of Ordeal, 1850-1859; title: Chapter 14: The Peter-and-Paul Fortress 163; title: Chapter 15: Katorga 185; title: Chapter 16: "Monsters in Their Misery" 196; title: Chapter 17: Private Dostoevsky 223; title: Chapter 18: A Russian Heart 243; title: Chapter 19: The Siberian Novellas 255; title: Chapter 20: Homecoming 273; title: PART III: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865; title: Chapter 21: Into the Fray 281; title: Chapter 22: An Aesthetics of T ranscendence 298; title: Chapter 23: The Insulted and Injured 317; title: Chapter 24: The Era of Proclamations 330; title: Chapter 25: Portrait of a Nihilist 341; title: Chapter 26: Time: The Final Months 358; title: Chapter 27: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 372; title: Chapter 28: An Emancipated Woman, A Tormented Lover 384; title: Chapter 29: The Prison of Utopia 399; title: Chapter 30: Notes from Underground 413; title: Chapter 31: The End of Epoch 441; title: PART IV: The Miraculous Y ears, 1865-1871; title: Chapter 32: Khlestakov in Wiesbaden 455; title: Chapter 33: From Novella to Novel 472; title: Chapter 34: Crime and Punishment 483; title: Chapter 35: "A Little Diamond" 509; title: Chapter 36: The Gambler 521; title: Chapter 37: Escape and Exile 531; title: Chapter 38: In Search of a Novel 549; title: Chapter 39: An Inconsolable Father 564; title: Chapter 40: The Idiot 577; title: Chapter 41: The Pamphlet and the Poem 590; title: Chapter 42: Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin 601; title: Chapter 43: Exile's Return 616; title: Chapter 44: History and Myth in Demons 626; title: Chapter 45: The Book of the Impostors 650; title: PART V: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881; title: Chapter 46: The Citizen 669; title: Chapter 47: Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism 682; title: Chapter 48: Bad Ems 694; title: Chapter 49: A Raw Youth 706; title: Chapter 50: A Public Figure 723; title: Chapter 51: The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877 738; title: Chapter 52: A New Novel 760; title: Chapter 53: The Great Debate 779; title: Chapter 54: Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor 788; title: Chapter 55: Terror and Martial Law 804; title: Chapter 56: The Pushkin Festival 813; title: Chapter 57: Controversies and Conclusions 835; title: Chapter 58: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-4 848; title: Chapter 59: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5-6 867; title: Chapter 60: The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7-12 886; title: Chapter 61: Death and Transfiguration 912; title: Editor's Note 933; title: Index 935; title: Contents