A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts - Paperback

by Katherine Bowers (Editor), Connor Doak (Editor), Kate Holland (Editor)

The powerful prose of Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers today. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and readers navigate the writer's fiction and world and to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which he lived and wrote, offering new paths for interpreting his writing.

Author Biography

Katherine Bowers is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, she is currently completing a monograph about gothic fiction's influence on Russian realism.

Connor Doak is a lecturer in Russian at the University of Bristol. He works primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, with a special interest in gender and sexuality in Russian culture. He has authored articles on authors including Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Petrushevskaia and Pushkin, and is currently working on a study of masculinity in Maiakovsky's poetry.

Kate Holland is Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the monograph, The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (2013), as well as articles on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Herzen, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Veselovsky.