Contents
Preface
Introduction. “In Life, but Not of It”: The Modernist Picaresque
Part One: The Polit on the Move
Chapter 1. Sharks and Marks: The Swindles and Seductions of Modernity
Chapter 2. Living Serially: Neoteny and the Polit
Part Two: The Polit as Demobilized Soldier
Chapter 3. The Polit at the Waning of Haskalah
Chapter 4. Spillage and Shards: The Polit between the Wars
Part Three: The Polit as Soviet Citizen
Chapter 5. The Polit under Tsars and Stripes
Epilogue. “You Must to Dare!”: Afterlives of the Polit
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index