The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s

by Kate Holland

Book Overview

Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time, he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144492
• ISBN13: 9780810144491
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"