Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor / David Herman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herman, David, 1962-

Series:

Studies in Russian literature and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Poor in literature.

Poverty in literature.

Physical Description:

xx, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Contents:

Introduction: Poverty and Imagination ix

Chapter 1 Expelled from the Garden of Poverty: Sympathy and Literacy in "Poor Liza" 1

Chapter 2 The Call of Poverty: Learning to Love the Low in "Egyptian Nights" 36

Chapter 3 The Meaning of Poverty: Gogol's Petersburg Tales 78

Chapter 4 Gogol against Sympathy 108

Chapter 5 "The Poverty of Our Literature" 143

Chapter 6 By His Poverty: Dostoevsky and the Imitations of Christ 168

Conclusion: The Wealth of the Russian Imagination 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.

ISBN:

0810116928

OCLC:

46670997