Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Totalities of Russian Literature 1
5. 1. Versions of Possession: Ghost, Demon, Idea, Discourse 22
6. 2. The Epidemic: The Infectious Imagination of Leo Tolstoy 59
7. 3. The Panorama: World Literature and Universal Language 84
8. 4. The Orchestra: Dictation and Dictatorship 115
9. 5. The Market: Humbert Humbert as Mad Man 141
10. Afterword 168
11. Notes 171
12. Index 207