Cambridge Companion To The Classic Russian Novel

Description:
Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.

Review:
'The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel is a provocative and challenging read ... Cambridge University Press has offered once again an excellent thematic study of a tradition that has produced some of the most profound, psychologically insightful, and spiritually challenging texts - those of the classic Russian novelist.' Moscow Tribune

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Chronology; Editors' preface Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller; 1. Introduction Malcolm V. Jones; Part I. The Setting: 2. The city Robert Maguire; 3. The countryside Hugh MacLean; Part II. The Culture: 4. Politics Gareth Jones; 5. Satire Lesley Milne; 6. Religion Jostein Bortnes; 7. Psychology and society Andrew Wachtel; 8. Philosophy in the nineteenth-century novel Gary Saul Morson; Part III: The Literary Tradition: 9. The romantic tradition Susanne Fusso; 10. The realist tradition Victor Terras; 11. The modernist tradition Robert Russell; Part IV. Structures and Readings: 12. Novelistic technique Robert Belknap; 13. Gender Barbara Heldt; 14. Theory Caryl Emerson; Guide to further reading; Index.