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Title Before they were Titans : essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy / edited with an introduction by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.
Publisher Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.

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Description xiv, 337 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781618114303 hardback
1618114301 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Dostoevsky : works of the 1840s. I. Agency, desire, and fate in Poor folk / Lewis Bagby ; II. Me and my double : selfhood, consciousness, and empathy in The double / Gary Saul Morson ; III. Husbands and lovers : vaudeville conventions in "Another man's wife," "The jealus husband," and The eternal husband / Susanne Fusso ; IV. Dostoevsky's White nights : memoir of a Petersburg patholgy / Dale E. Peterson ; V. Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen -- Part. II. Tolstoy : works of the 1850s. VI. The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art / Robin Feuer Miller ; VII. Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism / William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir ; VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp ; IX. On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning" / Anne Lounsbery ; X. Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / Ilya Vinitsky -- An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things / Caryl Emerson.
Series Ars Rossika.
Library Class Slavonic LD710
Subject Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Russian literature -- 19th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
Other Author Allen, Elizabeth Maureen, 1944- editor.

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