Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

by Ingrid Kleespies (Editor), Lyudmila Parts (Editor)

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings Ivan Goncharov's work into a twenty-first-century critical framework, engaging with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, philosophy, and mobility and travel.

Author Biography

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.