Russian grotesque realism : the great reforms and the gentry decline /
"A rereading of the Russian realist novel that proposes a hybrid genre, grotesque realism, to describe changes during the postreform era"--
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1grbbrp |
Table of Contents:
- The nihilist as grotesque other in Ivan Goncharov's The precipice and Nikolai Leskov's Cathedral folk
- Nihilist monsters and the failed gentry protagonist in Dostoevsky's Demons
- The gentry heroine as grotesque other: roots of Tolstoy's grotesque aesthetic in Anna Karenina
- Grotesque realism and the decline of the gentry in M. Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlev Family
- The gentry milieu as grotesque microcosm in Tolstoy's Resurrection
- Rehabilitating all monsters: love and the rehumanization of the grotesque in the Brothers Karamazov
- Conclusion: The death of the novel.