Bibliograph

Dostoevsky, a writer in his time, Joseph Frank ; edited by Mary Petrusewicz

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Dostoevsky, a writer in his time, Joseph Frank ; edited by Mary Petrusewicz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dostoevsky

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

299281278

Responsibility statement

Joseph Frank ; edited by Mary Petrusewicz

Sub title

a writer in his time

Summary

While preserving the narrative structure, & combination of biography, intellectual history & literary criticism of the original, this abridged edition places the works of Dostoevsky in personal, historical & above all ideological context, & provides a biography of the author & a cultural history of 19th century Russia

Table Of Contents

The seeds of revolt, 1821-1849. Prelude ; The family ; The religious and cultural background ; The academy of engineers ; The two romanticisms ; The Gogol period ; Poor folk ; Dostoevsky and the Pléiade ; Belinsky and Dostoevsky : I ; Feuilletons and experiments ; Belinsky and Dostoevsky : II ; The Beketov and Petrashevsky circles ; Dostoevsky and Speshnev -- The years of ordeal, 1850-1859. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress ; Katorga ; "Monsters in their misery" ; Private Dostoevsky ; A Russian heart ; The Siberian novellas ; Homecoming -- The stir of liberation, 1860-1865. Into the fray ; An aesthetics of transcendence ; The insulted and injured ; The era of proclamations ; Portrait of a nihilist ; Time : the final months ; Winter notes on summer impressions ; An emancipated woman, a tormented lover ; The prison of utopia ; Notes from underground ; The end of Epoch -- The miraculous years, 1865-1871. Khlestakov in Wiesbaden ; From novella to novel ; Crime and punishment ; "A little diamond" ; The gambler ; Escape and exile ; In search of a novel ; An inconsolable father ; The idiot ; The pamphlet and the poem ; Fathers, sons, and Stavrogin ; Exile's return ; History and myth in Demons ; The book of the impostors -- The mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881. The citizen ; Narodnichestvo : Russian populism ; Bad ems ; A raw youth ; A public figure ; The diary of a writer, 1876-1877 ; A new novel ; The great debate ; Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor ; Terror and martial law ; The Pushkin festival ; Controversies and conclusions ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 1-4 ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 5-6 ; The Brothers Karamazov : books 7-12 ; Death and transfiguration

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