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

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