Dostoevsky and the Realists

Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover is Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). She taught in Monash’s Slavic Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies until 2013. Apart from Dostoevsky, her research is in the poetics of Modernism and Postmodernism in Russian and Slavic literatures, in the context of European phenomenology and psychoanalytic theory. She is a co-author of Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (1999 and 2016) with Mikhail Epstein and Alexander Genis. She is on the executive boards of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-communist Studies (AACPCS) and the North American Serbian Studies Society (NASSS) and is regional representative for Australia of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). She is chief editor of The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review.

List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Realists: Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy – Manifestoes of Realism and the Sketch of Manners: Capturing a Moment in Time – Dostoevsky’s Doctrine of Beauty as Desire of the Age – Dostoevsky’s "Pochva" ["Soil"] and the ‘Genealogy’ of Russian History in The Possessed – Polyphony and the Gaze in Phenomenology – Sexuality, (Un-)Reason and Goliadkin as Kant’s Subject of Taste – Dickens the Painter of Modern Life and the Unconscious – Flaubert and the Sketch of Manners – Tolstoy’s Mikhailov, the Painter of Modern Life – The "Accidental Family" and Wittgenstein’s ‘Familienähnlichkeiten’ – Bibliography – Index.