Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information DOSTOEVSKY IN CONTEXT This volume explores the Russia where the great writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81) was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky’s works, but also on the Russian life that he and his contemporaries experienced: on social practices and historical developments, political and cultural institutions, religious beliefs, ideological trends, artistic conventions, and literary genres. Chapters by leading scholars illuminate this broad context, offer insights into Dostoevsky’sreflections on his age, and examine the expression of those reflections in his writing. Each chapter investi- gates a specific context and suggests how we might understand Dostoevsky in relation to it. Since Russia took so much from West- ern Europe throughout the imperial period, the volume also locates the Russian experience within the context of Western thought and practices, thereby offering a multidimensional view of the unfolding drama of Russia versus the West in the nineteenth century. deborah a. martinsen is Associate Dean of Alumni Education and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Litera- ture at Columbia University. She is the author of Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure (2003), the editor of Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (1997, 2010), and co-editor, with Cathy Popkin and Irina Reyfman, of Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (2014). She was President of the International Dostoevsky Society (2007–13) and Executive Secretary of the North American Dostoevsky Society (1998–2013). olga maiorova is Associate Professor of Russian Literature and History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870 (2010) and has edited several books, including a two-volume edition of previously unpublished works by the major nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Leskov (1997–2000, in Russian) with Ksenia Bogaevskaya and Lia Rosenblium. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information DOSTOEVSKY IN CONTEXT edited by DEBORAH A. MARTINSEN and OLGA MAIOROVA © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107028760 © Cambridge University Press 2015 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2015 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Dostoevsky in context / edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova. pages ; cm Includes index. isbn 978-1-107-02876-0 (Hardback) 1. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881–Themes, motives. 3. Russia–In literature. I. Martinsen, Deborah A., editor. II. Maiorova, O. E., editor. pg3328.z6d6285 2016 891.7303–dc23 2015026852 isbn 978-1-107-02876-0 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page viii Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgments xvii Note on citation, transliteration, glossary, and dates xviii Chronology xx 1 Introduction: the many worlds of Dostoevsky 1 Olga Maiorova and Deborah Martinsen part i social, historical, and cultural contexts i changing political, economic, and social landscape 2 The Great Reforms and the new courts 13 Richard Wortman 3 The abolition of serfdom 22 Nathaniel Knight 4 Punishment and crime 30 Anna Schur 5 Socialism, utopia, and myth 39 James P. Scanlan 6 Nihilism and terrorism 48 Derek Offord 7 The “woman question,” women’s work, women’s options 58 Barbara Engel 8 The economy and the print market 66 Jonathan Paine v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information vi Contents ii political, social, and cultural institutions 9 Russian monarchy and the people 77 Richard Wortman 10 Empire 86 Olga Maiorova 11 Service ranks 98 Irina Reyfman 12 Education 106 Inessa Medzhibovskaya 13 Science, technology, and medicine 114 Michael D. Gordin 14 Jews, race, and biology 122 Harriet Murav 15 Suicide 131 Susan Morrissey 16 Children 139 Robin Feuer Miller 17 Gambling 148 Richard J. Rosenthal iii space and place 18 Symbolic geography 159 Anne Lounsbery 19 St. Petersburg 168 Robert L. Belknap 20 The Crystal Palace 176 Sarah J. Young iv religion and modernity 21 Orthodox spirituality 187 Nel Grillaert 22 Religious dissent 194 Irina Paert © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information Contents vii 23 Roman Catholicism 202 Mikhail Dolbilov 24 Islam 209 Robert Geraci part ii literature, journalism, and languages 25 Modern print culture 221 Konstantine Klioutchkine 26 Realism 229 Liza Knapp 27 Dostoevsky: translator and translated 236 Carol Apollonio 28 Travel and travel writing 244 Susan Layton 29 Folklore 251 Linda Ivanits 30 Foreign languages 258 Karin Beck 31 Theater 264 Maude Meisel 32 Dostoevsky’s journalism and fiction 272 Ellen Chances 33 Dostoevsky’s journalism in the 1860s 280 Sarah Hudspith 34 Dostoevsky’s journalism in the 1870s 288 Kate Holland 35 Censorship 295 Irene Zohrab Glossary 303 Further reading 307 Index 321 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information Illustrations Figures 1 “The Solemn Presentation of Bread and Salt to our Father the Tsar.” Reproduced by permission of the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF). page 79 2 R.O. Blechman’s cartoon illustration, “Dostoyevsky at the Table.” Reproduced by permission. 149 3 Map of St. Petersburg, created by Alexander Brodsky, with the assistance of Boris Krichevsky. Reproduced by permission. 169 4 Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London. A view of the palace from the south east looking over the grounds. Reproduced by permission of English Heritage. 177 Table 1 The Table of Ranks, created by Sergei Antonov. Reproduced by permission. page 99 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02876-0 - Dostoevsky in Context Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova Frontmatter More information Contributors carol apollonio is a scholar of the Russian novel. Author and editor of works on nineteenth-century classic writers, including the books Dostoevsky’s Secrets (2009) and The New Russian Dostoevsky (2010), she also writes about problems of translation. A former conference interpreter of Russian, she has translated books from Japanese and Russian, including Kizaki Satoko’s The Phoenix Tree (1990), German Sadulaev’s The Maya Pill (2013), and Alisa Ganieva’s The Mountain and the Wall (2015). Professor of the Practice of Russian at Duke University, Carol currently serves as President of the North American Dostoevsky Society. karin beck was awarded her PhD in Slavic Literatures from Columbia in 2007, after studying in Berlin, Prague, and New York. Her work focuses on multilingualism in Russian and Czech literatures, especially during the nineteenth century. From 2009 to 2014 she served as Director of the College at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. She is currently Director of the School of General Studies at Kean University in New Jersey. robert l. belknap was Professor of Russian Literature at Columbia University for over fifty years. He was educated at Princeton University, the University of Paris, Columbia University, and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University. He was the author of The Structure of “The Brothers Karamazov” (1967, 1989), The Genesis of “The Brothers Karamazov” (1997), Plots (forthcoming),