Before They Were Titans : Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Ars Rossica Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Before They Were Titans
- Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840s
- I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk
- II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double
- III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in "Another Man's Wife," "The Jealous Husband," and The Eternal Husband
- IV. Dostoevsky's White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology
- V. Dostoevsky's Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova
- Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850s
- VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art
- VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy's "The Raid" and Russian Journalism
- VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe
- IX. On Cultivating One's Own Garden with Other People's Labor: Serfdom in "A Landowner's Morning"
- X. Tolstoy's Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation
- An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things.