Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herman, David, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
Series:	Studies in Russian literature and theory
Subjects:	Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism Poor in literature Poverty in literature

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Poverty and Imagination
Ch. 1. Expelled from the Garden of Poverty: Sympathy and Literacy in "Poor Liza"
Ch. 2. The Call of Poverty: Learning to Love the Low in "Egyptian Nights"
Ch. 3. The Meaning of Poverty: Gogol's Petersburg Tales
Ch. 4. Gogol against Sympathy
Ch. 5. "The Poverty of Our Literature"
Ch. 6. By His Poverty: Dostoevsky and the Imitations of Christ
Conclusion: The Wealth of the Russian Imagination.