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The intimate stranger : meetings with the devil in nineteenth-century Russian literature / Julian W. Connolly.
Van Pelt Library PG3015.5.D47 C66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, Julian W.
- Series:
- Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; vol. 26.
- Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; vol. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Devil in literature.
- Demonology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Nature of the Beast 1
- 2 The Devil Stirs: First Encounters 15
- 3 Gogol's Early Demons: From Dikanka to Mirgorod 43
- 4 Eluding Definition: The Devil in St. Petersburg 81
- 5 Aleksandr Pushkin and the Spirit of Seduction 111
- 6 Mikhail Lermontov and the Demon Spurned 135
- 7 Lengthening Shadows: Fedor Dostoevskii's Devils 161
- 8 Conflict at the Crisis Point: The Brothers Karamazov 203
- 9 An Attempt at Exorcism: Tolstoi's Late Fiction 247
- 10 Conclusion: The Indispensable Demon 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820455164
- OCLC:
- 45446276
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