Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration and Translation xiii
5. Illustrations xv
6. Introduction: Russian Realism and the Gothic 1
7. PART I Gothic Migration
8. Chapter One. A Russian Reader’s Gothic Library 19
9. Chapter Two. Gothic Transmutations in Pushkin and Gogol 38
10. Chapter Three. Russian Landscapes in a Gothic Frame 58
11. Chapter Four. The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Gothic Novel 73
12. PART II Gothic Realism
13. Chapter Five. Physiological Petersburg, Gothic Petersburg 97
14. Chapter Six. Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question 115
15. Chapter Seven. Political Terror and the School of Horror 137
16. Chapter Eight. The Fall of the House on the Russian Estate 159
17. Conclusion: Chekhov’s Ghosts 175
18. Notes 185
19. Works Cited 211
20. Index 229