| Dostoevsky in Context Contributor(s): Martinsen, Deborah A. (Editor), Maiorova, Olga (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107028760 ISBN-13: 9781107028760 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $96.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| LCCN: 2015026852 |
| Series: Literature in Context |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.14" W x 9.34" (1.59 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores the Russia where the great writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but also on the Russian life that he and his contemporaries experienced: on social practices and historical developments, political and cultural institutions, religious beliefs, ideological trends, artistic conventions and literary genres. Chapters by leading scholars illuminate this broad context, offer insights into Dostoevsky's reflections on his age, and examine the expression of those reflections in his writing. Each chapter investigates a specific context and suggests how we might understand Dostoevsky in relation to it. Since Russia took so much from Western Europe throughout the imperial period, the volume also locates the Russian experience within the context of Western thought and practices, thereby offering a multidimensional view of the unfolding drama of Russia versus the West in the nineteenth century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maiorova, Olga: - Olga Maiorova is Associate Professor of Russian Literature and History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855 1870 (2010) and has edited several books, including a two-volume edition of previously unpublished works by the major nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Leskov (1997 2000, in Russian) with Ksenia Bogaevskaya and Lia Rosenblium. |