3 The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky’s Businesswomen

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration x
5. Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity 1
6. 1 The Poetics of the Slap: Dostoevsky’s Disintegrating Duel Plot 21
7. 2 Dostoevsky and the (Missing) Marriage Plot 41
8. 3 The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky’s Businesswomen 61
9. 4 Allegories of the Material World: Dostoevsky and Nineteenth-Century Science 81
10. 5 Dostoevsky, Sechenov, and the Reflexes of the Brain: Towards a Stylistic Genealogy of Notes from Underground 99
11. 6 Deferred Senses and Distanced Spaces: Embodying the Boundaries of Dostoevsky’s Realism 118
12. 7 Under the Floorboards, Over the Door: The Gothic Corpse and Writing Fear in The Idiot 137
13. 8 The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment 159
14. 9 Illegitimacies of the Novel: Characterization in Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent 177
15. 10 Sovereignty and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s Political Theology 196
16. Works Cited 221
17. Contributors 241
18. Index 243