{"product_id":"a-dostoevskii-companion-texts-and-contexts-9781618117274","title":"A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevsky’s Russia. \u003cem\u003eA Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts\u003c\/em\u003e aims to help students and readers navigate the writer’s fiction and his world, to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which Dostoevsky lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents from Dostoevsky’s own time (excerpts from his letters, his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevsky from the contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a deeper understanding of Dostoevsky’s world and his writing, offering new paths and directions for interpreting his writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This fascinating and useful collection combines Dostoevsky’s own texts (fictional excerpts, letters, articles) with a number of illuminating essays to shed light on various aspects of the author’s life, work, and thought. Designed with undergraduate students in mind, the collection, edited by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland, will be of great help to students and to those who teach them, capturing what professors talk about when they talk about Dostoevsky.” —Vladimir Golstein, Brown University, \u003ci\u003eRussian Review\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 78, No. 2\u003c\/p\u003e -- Vladimir Golstein, Brown University * Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I found this book both eminently readable and a comprehensive and invaluable re-source for Dostoevskii scholars, no matter at what level they research. The Anglo-Canadian editorial team of Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak and Kate Holland are to be congratulated on assembling a rich textual and contextual feast that repays detailed study.” —John Cook, University of Melbourne, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Slavonic and East European Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This extremely valuable addition to Academic Studies Press’s Cultural Syllabus Series is aimed primarily at undergraduate students, although it is sure to be of interest to scholars of Dostoevsky. It offers a comprehensive collection of excerpts from Dostoevsky’s literary works, nonfiction, letters, and notebooks, as well as selections from important critical articles about his life and works. … Each chapter ends with a welcome, selected bibliography of works on the subject of the chapter. Given the enormous number of works on Dostoevsky (‘Who has not written a book on Dostoevsky?’), this is very useful for future reference. … We are fortunate to have this new companion to studying Dostoevsky.” —Michael Katz, Middlebury College, \u003ci\u003eSlavic and East European Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to Use this Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote on Translation, Transliteration, and Referencing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimeline of Dostoevsky’s Life and Works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiography and Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: The Early Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A Noble Vocation” (2012) by Robert Bird\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ribbon Theft Incident from \u003cem\u003eConfessions\u003c\/em\u003e(1789) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Son’s Revenge from \u003cem\u003eThe Robbers\u003c\/em\u003e(1781) by Friedrich Schiller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Glimpse of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe House of Monsieur Grandet in \u003cem\u003eEugénie Grandet\u003c\/em\u003e(1833) by Honoré de Balzac\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Nell in \u003cem\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop\u003c\/em\u003e(1841) by Charles Dickens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Overcoat (1842) by Nikolai Gogol′ \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/em\u003e(1846) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Night from “White Nights” (1848) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter to Gogol′ (1847) by Vissarion Belinskii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Documents from the Petrashevskii Trial (1849)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mock Execution: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, December 22, 1849 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: Dostoevsky and His Contemporaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Review of \u003cem\u003eThe Double\u003c\/em\u003e(1846) by Vissarion Belinskii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThoughts on \u003cem\u003eThe Double\u003c\/em\u003e(1847) by Valerian Maikov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Row with Turgenev: Letter to Apollon Maikov, August 16, 1867 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Caricature of Turgenev in \u003cem\u003eDemons\u003c\/em\u003e(1872) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaction to \u003cem\u003eDemons\u003c\/em\u003e: Letter to Mariia Miliutina, December 3, 1872 by Ivan Turgenev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Landowners’ Literature”: Letter to Nikolai Strakhov, May 18, 1871 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThoughts on \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e(1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiny Alterations of Consciousness (1890) by Lev Tolstoy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eA Cruel Talent\u003c\/em\u003e(1882) by Nikolai Mikhailovskii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTolstoy and Dostoevsky (1902) by Dmitrii Merezhkovskii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Root and the Flower: Dostoevsky and Turgenev (1993) by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: Aesthetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr—bov and the Question of Art (1861) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Defense of the Ideal: Letter to Apollon Maikov, December 11, 1868 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApropos of the Exhibition (1873) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoet of the Underground (1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDmitrii Karamazov on Beauty (1878) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Kinds of Beauty (1966) by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky’s Fantastic Pages (2006) by Vladimir Zakharov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: Characters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMakar Devushkin (2009) by Carol Apollonio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderground Man (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaskol′nikov (2002) by Konstantine Klioutchkine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMyshkin (1998) by Liza Knapp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNastas′ia Filippovna (2004) by Sarah J Young\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStavrogin (1969) by Joseph Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFedor Karamazov (2003) by Deborah A Martinsen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIvan Karamazov and Smerdiakov (1992) by Harriet Murav\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlesha Karamazov (1977) by Valentina Vetlovskaia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5: The Novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Novel of Disintegration from the Notebooks for \u003cem\u003eThe Adolescent\u003c\/em\u003e(1874) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Exceptional Family from \u003cem\u003eThe Adolescent\u003c\/em\u003e(1875) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemaking the Noble Family Novel (2013) by Kate Holland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New Kind of Hero (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Chronicle Time” in Dostoevsky (1979) by Dmitrii Likhachev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Narrator of \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e(1981) by Robin Feuer Miller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSideshadowing in Dostoevsky’s Novels (1994) by Gary Saul Morson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Plot of \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e(2016) by Robert L Belknap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6: From Journalism to Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeuilleton, April 22, 1847 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Petersburg Feuilletons (1979) by Joseph Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky’s “Vision on the Neva” (1979) by Joseph Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcerpts from the Notebooks for\u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e(1867) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNastas′ia Filippovna’s History from \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOl′ga Umetskaia and \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e(2017) by Katherine Bowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Suicides from \u003cem\u003eA Writer’s Diary\u003c\/em\u003e(1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom “The Meek One: A Fantastic Story” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Case Study: October, November, December 1876 (2013) by Kate Holland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Writer’s Diary\u003c\/em\u003e as a Historical Phenomenon (2004) by Igor′ Volgin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Writer’s Diary\u003c\/em\u003e, April 1877 issue in full\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7: Captivity, Free Will, and Utopia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky’s Prison Years (2013) by James P Scanlan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrison Life: Letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, February 22, 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison from \u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Eagle from \u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky Responds to the Censorship Committee (1986) by Joseph Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVera Pavlovna’s Fourth Dream from \u003cem\u003eWhat Is to Be Done?\u003c\/em\u003e(1863) by Nikolai Chernyshevskii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison of Utopia (1986) by Joseph Frank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Crystal Palace from \u003cem\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/em\u003e(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwice Two from \u003cem\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/em\u003e(1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhilosophical Pro et Contra in Part I of \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e(1981) by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeta-utopia (1981) by Gary Saul Morson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on His Wife’s Death (1864) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Speech at the Stone from \u003cem\u003eBrothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e(1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to Joy (2004) by Robert Louis Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8: Dostoevsky’s Others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortrait of Alei in \u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortrait of Isai Fomich in\u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jewish Question (1877) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristians, Muslims, and Jews in \u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(2008) by Susan McReynolds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom “A Few Words about George Sand” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom “About Women Again” (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Woman Question in \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e(1994) by Nina Pelikan Straus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mothers Karamazov (2009) by Carol Apollonio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9: Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFellow Convicts from \u003cem\u003eNotes from the House of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e(1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter the Emancipation (1860) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoing Beyond Theory (1862) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky and the Slavophiles (2003) by Sarah Hudspith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Coming Apocalypse from the Notebooks for \u003cem\u003eDemons\u003c\/em\u003e(1870) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeasant Marei (1876) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePushkin Speech (1880) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10: God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Confession of Faith: Letter to Natal′ia Fonvizina, early March 1854 by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMyshkin and Rogozhin Exchange Crosses in \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e(1869) by Fedor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDostoevsky’s Religious Thought (1903) by Lev Shestov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Grand Inquisitor (1921) by Nikolai Berdiaev\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHagiography in \u003cem\u003eBrothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e(1985) by Nina Perlina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Koranic Motif in \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDemons\u003c\/em\u003e(2012) by Diane Oenning Thompson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eDostoevsky’s Religion\u003c\/em\u003e(2005) by Steven Cassedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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