Dostoevsky in Context

List of illustrations page viii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Note on citation, transliteration, glossary, and dates xviii
Chronology xx
1 Introduction: the many worlds of Dostoevsky 1
Olga Maiorova and Deborah Martinsen
part i social, historical, and cultural contexts
i changing political, economic, and
social landscape
2 The Great Reforms and the new courts 13
Richard Wortman
3 The abolition of serfdom 22
Nathaniel Knight
4 Punishment and crime 30
Anna Schur
5 Socialism, utopia, and myth 39
James P. Scanlan
6 Nihilism and terrorism 48
Derek Offord
7 The “woman question,” women’s work, women’s options 58
Barbara Engel
8 The economy and the print market 66
Jonathan Paine
ii political, social, and cultural institutions
9 Russian monarchy and the people 77
Richard Wortman
10 Empire 86
Olga Maiorova
11 Service ranks 98
Irina Reyfman
12 Education 106
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
13 Science, technology, and medicine 114
Michael D. Gordin
14 Jews, race, and biology 122
Harriet Murav
15 Suicide 131
Susan Morrissey
16 Children 139
Robin Feuer Miller
17 Gambling 148
Richard J. Rosenthal
iii space and place
18 Symbolic geography 159
Anne Lounsbery
19 St. Petersburg 168
Robert L. Belknap
20 The Crystal Palace 176
Sarah J. Young
iv religion and modernity
21 Orthodox spirituality 187
Nel Grillaert
22 Religious dissent 194
Irina Paert
23 Roman Catholicism 202
Mikhail Dolbilov
24 Islam 209
Robert Geraci
part ii literature, journalism, and languages
25 Modern print culture 221
Konstantine Klioutchkine
26 Realism 229
Liza Knapp
27 Dostoevsky: translator and translated 236
Carol Apollonio
28 Travel and travel writing 244
Susan Layton
29 Folklore 251
Linda Ivanits
30 Foreign languages 258
Karin Beck
31 Theater 264
Maude Meisel
32 Dostoevsky’s journalism and fiction 272
Ellen Chances
33 Dostoevsky’s journalism in the 1860s 280
Sarah Hudspith
34 Dostoevsky’s journalism in the 1870s 288
Kate Holland
35 Censorship 295
Irene Zohrab
Glossary 303
Further reading 307
Index 321