Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century

Ingrid Kleespies is Associate Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. She is the author of A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature (2012) and of articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, with a special focus on Russian Romanticism, travel literature, and symbolic spaces. Lyudmila Parts is Professor of Russian at McGill University (Montreal). She is the author of In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (2018); The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (2008); and the editor of The Russian 20th Century Short Story: A Critical Companion (2009). She has published articles on Karamzin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, contemporary authors, symbolic geography, and Russian travelogue.

Table of ContentsContributors

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts

Part One. The Life of Service

Writer and Chinovnik: The Case of I. A. Goncharov
Sergei Gus′kov

Writer or Censor: I. A. Goncharov’s Service in the Departments of Censorship, and the Evolution of Professional Ethics for Censors and Writers in Russia, in the 1850s and 1860s
Kirill Zubkov

Part Two. The Challenges of Philosophy

“Oblomovskii Platon”: Platonic Subtexts in Oblomov
Vladimir Ivantsov

Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Unifying Thread of Goncharov’s Trilogy
Victoria Juharyan

Longing, Replacement, and Anti-Economy in Goncharov’s Oblomov
Sonja Koroliov

Part Three. The Challenges of Realism: Traditions and Transgressions

“Shadows, Dead People, and Specters”: Gothic Aesthetics in Ivan Goncharov’s The Precipice
Valeria Sobol

The Queer Nihilist—Queer Time, Social Refusal, and Heteronormativity in Goncharov's The Precipice
Ani Kokobobo and Devin McFadden

Part Four. Author and Imperialist Abroad: Frigate Pallada

“I Avoided the Factual Side . . .”: Fiction and Document in Frigate Pallada
Aleksei Balakin

A Russian Observer Catches the London Eye: Envisioning Imperial Modernity in Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada
Ingrid Kleespies

Who are You Laughing at? Identity, Laughter, and Colonial Discourse in Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada
Lyudmila Parts

Works Cited

Index