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Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity

Edited by Katherine Bowers, Edited by Kate Holland

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Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevskyâ€™s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writerâ€™s art â€“ specifically the tension between experience and formal representation â€“ as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevskyâ€™s works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives. Contributors situate Dostoevskyâ€™s formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevskyâ€™s particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape Dostoevskyâ€™s works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of Russian literature but also to those curious about the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevskyâ€™s contribution to the novel as a form.