Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol

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Author(s): Donald Fanger
Edition: 1
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1967

Language: English
Pages: 321
City: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 12
I. The Romantic Realists......Page 14
1. Realism, Pure and Romantic......Page 16
2. Balzac: The Heightening of Substance......Page 41
3. Dickens: Realism, Subjunctive and Indicative......Page 78
4. Gogol: The Apotheosis of the Grotesque......Page 114
II. The Inheritor: Dostoevsky......Page 140
5. The Most Fantastic City: Approaches to a Myth......Page 142
6. Evolution of the Myth: From Poor Folk to Notes from Underground......Page 165
7. Apogee: Crime and Punishment......Page 197
8. Poetics of the City......Page 227
Conclusion......Page 254
Selected Bibliography......Page 284
Notes......Page 291
Index......Page 316