RUSSIAN GROTESQUE REALISM: THE GREAT REFORMS AND THE GENTRY DECLINE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: MAKING THE FAMILIAR STRANGE: Eliminating Gentry Privilege in Russian Grotesque Realism
I. THE NOBILITY AND THE GREAT REFORMS OF ALEXANDER II
II. GENTRY PRIVILEGE IN RUSSIAN REALISM
III. REFASHIONING REALITY THROUGH THE LENS OF GROTESQUE REALISM
IV. RUSSIAN GROTESQUE REALISM, 1869–99
CHAPTER 1: THE NIHILIST AS GROTESQUE OTHER IN IVAN GONCHAROV’S THE PRECIPICE AND NIKOLAI LESKOV’S CATHEDRAL FOLK
I. THE MATERIALIST PREROGATIVE: CHERNYSHEVSKY AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE GROTESQUE
II. GONCHAROV’S MARK VOLOKHOV AS GROTESQUE HYBRID
III. THE EVOLUTION OF GROTESQUE REALISM IN CATHEDRAL FOLK
IV. NIHILISTS ANNIHILATING THE SOUL
V. OVERCOMING THE GROTESQUE NIHILIST
CHAPTER 2: NIHILIST MONSTERS AND THE FAILED GENTRY PROTAGONIST IN DOSTOEVSKY’S DEMONS
I. AN AVERAGE TOWN
II. “C’EST UN MONSTRE”
III. A “NEW STORY”
IV. THE ANTI-NIHILIST GROTESQUE
V. THE GROTESQUE MICROCOSM
CHAPTER 3: THE GENTRY HEROINE AS GROTESQUE OTHER: Roots of Tolstoy’s Grotesque Aesthetic in Anna Karenina
I. DEATH AND THE GROTESQUE IN ANNA KARENINA
II. ANNA AS ARTISTIC OBJECT
III. DEGRADING OTHERS
IV. THE GROTESQUE AND THE LARGER GENTRY MILIEU&
CHAPTER 4: GROTESQUE REALISM AND THE DECLINE OF THE GENTRY IN M. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S THE GOLOVLEV FAMILY
I. THE TRADITIONAL IMAGE OF THE LANDOWNER AND THE GENTRY MICROCOSM&
II. THE LANDOWNER TURNED INTO GROTESQUE AUTOMATON
III. A GROTESQUE MICROCOSM
IV. FOOD CONSUMPTION
V. GAZING INTO THE ABYSS
CHAPTER 5: THE GENTRY MILIEU AS GROTESQUE MICROCOSM IN TOLSTOY’S RESURRECTION
I. GROTESQUE MICROCOSMS
II. THE GENTRY ESTATE TURNED GROTESQUE MICROCOSM
III. THE OBJECTIFIED SUBJECT
IV. THE GROTESQUE WORLD
V. SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE GROTESQUE&
CHAPTER 6: REHABILITATING ALL MONSTERS: Love and the Rehumanization of the Grotesque in The Brothers Karamazov&
I. GROTESQUE INDIVIDUALS
II. THE GROTESQUE AND THE FAILURE OF LOVE
III. THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE GROTESQUE
IV. IS THE GROTESQUE LOVABLE?
CONCLUSION: THE DEATH OF THE NOVEL
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