دانلود کتاب Dostoevsky in Context

This volume explores the Russia where the great writer Fyodor
Dostoevsky (1821–81) was born and lived. It focuses not only on the
Russia depicted in Dostoevsky’s works, but also on the Russian life
that he and his contemporaries experienced: on social practices and
historical developments, political and cultural institutions, religious
beliefs, ideological trends, artistic conventions, and literary genres.
Chapters by leading scholars illuminate this broad context, offer
insights into Dostoevsky’s reflections on his age, and examine the
expression of those reflections in his writing. Each chapter investigates
a specific context and suggests how we might understand
Dostoevsky in relation to it. Since Russia took so much from Western
Europe throughout the imperial period, the volume also locates
the Russian experience within the context of Western thought and
practices, thereby offering a multidimensional view of the unfolding
drama of Russia versus the West in the nineteenth century.