Dostoevsky : : A Writer in His Time / / Joseph Frank.

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• VerfasserIn: Frank, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: With a New preface by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 31 halftones.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface: Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time --; Acknowledgments --; Transliteration --; Abbreviations --; Part I. The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 --; Chapter 1. Prelude --; Chapter 2. The Family --; Chapter 3. The Religious and Cultural Background --; Chapter 4. The Academy of Military Engineers --; Chapter 5. The Two Romanticisms --; Chapter 6. The Gogol Period --; Chapter 7. Poor Folk --; Chapter 8. Dostoevsky and the Pléiade --; Chapter 9. Belinsky and Dostoevsky: I --; Chapter 10. Feuilletons and Experiments --; Chapter 11. Belinsky and Dostoevsky: II --; Chapter 12. The Beketov and Petrashevsky Circles --; Chapter 13. Dostoevsky and Speshnev --; Part II. The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 --; Chapter 14. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress --; Chapter 15. Katorga --; Chapter 16. "Monsters in Their Misery" --; Chapter 17. Private Dostoevsky --; Chapter 18. A Russian Heart --; Chapter 19. The Siberian Novellas --; Chapter 20. Homecoming --; Part III. The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 --; Chapter 21. Into the Fray --; Chapter 22. An Aesthetics of Transcendence --; Chapter 23. The Insulted and Injured --; Chapter 24. The Era of Proclamations --; Chapter 25. Portrait of a Nihilist --; Chapter 26. Time: The Final Months --; Chapter 27. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions --; Chapter 28. An Emancipated Woman, A Tormented Lover --; Chapter 29. The Prison of Utopia --; Chapter 30. Notes from Underground --; Chapter 31. The End of Epoch --; Part IV. The Miraculous Y ears, 1865-1871 --; Chapter 32. Khlestakov in Wiesbaden --; Chapter 33. From Novella to Novel --; Chapter 34. Crime and Punishment --; Chapter 35. "A Little Diamond" --; Chapter 36. The Gambler --; Chapter 37. Escape and Exile --; Chapter 38. In Search of a Novel --; Chapter 39. An Inconsolable Father --; Chapter 40. The Idiot --; Chapter 41. The Pamphlet and the Poem --; Chapter 42. Fathers, Sons, and Stavrogin --; Chapter 43. Exile's Return --; Chapter 44. History and Myth in Demons --; Chapter 45. The Book of the Impostors --; Part V. The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 --; Chapter 46. The Citizen --; Chapter 47. Narodnichestvo: Russian Populism --; Chapter 48. Bad Ems --; Chapter 49. A Raw Youth --; Chapter 50. A Public Figure --; Chapter 51. The Diary of a Writer, 1876-1877 --; Chapter 52. A New Novel --; Chapter 53. The Great Debate --; Chapter 54. Rebellion and the Grand Inquisitor --; Chapter 55. Terror and Martial Law --; Chapter 56. The Pushkin Festival --; Chapter 57. Controversies and Conclusions --; Chapter 58. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1-4 --; Chapter 59. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5-6 --; Chapter 60. The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7-12 --; Chapter 61. Death and Transfiguration --; Editor's Note --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400833412; 9783110662580; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400833412
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Frank.

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.