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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

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