Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
Contents:
The nihilist as grotesque other in Ivan Goncharov's The precipice and Nikolai Leskov's Cathedral folk -- Nihilist monsters and the failed gentry protagonist in Dostoevsky's Demons -- The gentry heroine as grotesque other: roots of Tolstoy's grotesque aesthetic in Anna Karenina -- Grotesque realism and the decline of the gentry in M. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlev Family -- The gentry milieu as grotesque microcosm in Tolstoy's Resurrection -- Rehabilitating all monsters: love and the rehumanization of the grotesque in the Brothers Karamazov -- Conclusion: The death of the novel.
Summary:
"A rereading of the Russian realist novel that proposes a hybrid genre, grotesque realism, to describe changes during the postreform era"-- Provided by publisher.
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