X. Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / I. Agency, desire, and fate in Poor folk / Caryl Emerson. II. Me and my double : selfhood, consciousness, and empathy in The double / Gary Saul Morson ; III. Husbands and lovers : vaudeville conventions in "Another man's wife," "The jealous husband," and The eternal husband / Susanne Fusso ; IV. Dostoevsky's White nights : memoir of a Petersburg patholgy / Dale E. Peterson ; V. Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen -- Part. II. Tolstoy : works of the 1850s. VI. The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art / Robin Feuer Miller ; VII. Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism / William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir ; VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp ; IX. On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning" / Anne Lounsbery ; X. Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / Ilya Vinitsky -- An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things / Caryl Emerson.
Summary:
These ten critical essays, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century Russian literature, provide new readings on the works from the first decade of ltierary life of Doystoevsky and Tolstoy.
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