Introduction: Before They Were Titans

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Note on the Text xi
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. Introduction: Before They Were Titans 1
7. Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840s
8. I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk 15
9. II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double 43
10. III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in “Another Man’s Wife,” “The Jealous Husband,” and The Eternal Husband 61
11. IV. Dostoevsky’s White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology 93
12. V. Dostoevsky’s Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova 115
13. Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850s
14. VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art 153
15. VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy’s “The Raid” and Russian Journalism 193
16. VIII. Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe 211
17. IX. On Cultivating One’s Own Garden with Other People’s Labor: Serfdom in “A Landowner’s Morning” 267
18. X. Tolstoy’s Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation 299
19. An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things 317
20. Index 329