Chekhov in Context

Yuri Corrigan is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (2017).

Preface: The Poet of Catastrophe Cornel West; Introduction Yuri Corrigan; Part I. Life: 1. Son, brother, husband (in Correspondence) Alevtina Kuzicheva; 2. Chekhov's friends Vladimir Kataev; 3. An 'Indeterminate Situation': Chekhov's illness and death Michael Finke; Part II. Society: 4. Class Anne Lounsbery; 5. Money Vadim Shneyder; 6. Politics Derek Offord; 7. Peasants Christine D. Worobec; 8. The woman question Jenny Kaminer; 9. Sex Melissa L. Miller; 10. Social activism Andrei Stepanov; 11. Environmentalism Jane Costlow; 12. Sakhalin Island Edyta M. Bojanowska; Part III. Culture: 13. Philosophy Michal Oklot; 14. Religion Denis Zhernokleyev; 15. Science Elena Fratto; 16. Medicine and the mind-body problem Matthew Mangold; 17. The arts Serge Gregory; 18. Fin de Siècle Mark D. Steinberg; 19. The harm that good ideas do Gary Saul Morson; 20. Chekhov's Intelligentsias Svetlana Evdokimova; Part IV. Literature: 21. Print culture Louise McReynolds; 22. Embarrassment Caryl Emerson; 23. Tolstoy Rosamund Bartlett; 24. French literature Sergei A. Kibalnik; 25. Modernism and symbolism Lindsay Ceballos; 26. Theatrical traditions Anna Muza; 27. Modern theatre: Resonances and intersections Julia Listengarten; 28. Chekhov's Moscow art theatre (1897-1904) Sharon Marie Carnicke; Part V. Afterlives: 29. Soviet contexts Radislav Lapushin; 30. Chekhov in England Olga Tabachnikova; 31. The American stage James N. Loehlin; 32. Chekhov in East Asia Heekyoung Cho; 33. Film Justin Wilmes; 34. In Translation: Chekhov's path into english Carol Apollonio; Afterword: Chekhov's endings Robin Feuer Miller; Further reading; Endnotes.