CONTENTS

Notes on contributors

Editor’s note

Chronology

1. Introduction

W. J. Leatherbarrow

2. Dostoevskii and the Russian folk heritage

Faith Wigzell

3. Dostoevskii and literature: works of the 1840s

W. J. Leatherbarrow

4. Dostoevskii as a professional writer

William Mills Todd, III

5. Dostoevskii and money

Boris Christa

6. Dostoevskii and the intelligentsia

Derek Offord

7. Dostoevskii and psychology

Robert L. Belknap

8. Dostoevskii and religion

Malcolm V. Jones

9. Dostoevskii and the family

Susanne Fusso

10. Dostoevskii and science

Diane Oenning Thompson

11. Conclusion: reading Dostoevskii

Gary Saul Morson

Guide to further reading

Index