Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity

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Dostoevsky at 200

The Novel in Modernity

Edited by: Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland
Funded by: University of Toronto Libraries

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Reconsidering Dostoevsky’s legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.

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Bowers Katherine :

Katherine Bowers is an associate professor in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Holland Kate :

Kate Holland is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.

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Literary Studies Literature of other Nations and Languages Other Nations and Languages

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland Open Access Download PDF	1
1 The Poetics of the Slap: Dostoevsky’s Disintegrating Duel Plot Kate Holland Open Access Download PDF	21
2 Dostoevsky and the (Missing) Marriage Plot Anna A. Berman Open Access Download PDF	41
3 The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky’s Businesswomen Vadim Shneyder Open Access Download PDF	61
4 Allegories of the Material World: Dostoevsky and Nineteenth-Century Science Melissa Frazier Open Access Download PDF	81
5 Dostoevsky, Sechenov, and the Reflexes of the Brain: Towards a Stylistic Genealogy of Notes from Underground Alexey Vdovin Open Access Download PDF	99
6 Deferred Senses and Distanced Spaces: Embodying the Boundaries of Dostoevsky’s Realism Sarah J. Young Open Access Download PDF	118
7 Under the Floorboards, Over the Door: The Gothic Corpse and Writing Fear in The Idiot Katherine Bowers Open Access Download PDF	137
8 The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment Greta Matzner-Gore Open Access Download PDF	159
9 Illegitimacies of the Novel: Characterization in Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent Chloë Kitzinger Open Access Download PDF	177
10 Sovereignty and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s Political Theology Ilya Kliger Open Access Download PDF	196
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	221
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	241
Index Open Access Download PDF	243

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July 30, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9781487541378

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264

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487541378

eBook ISBN: 9781487541378

Keywords for this book

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Dostoevskii; the novel; nineteenth-century; Russian literature; modernity; The Idiot; Crime and Punishment; Russian realism; Notes from Underground; representation

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

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