Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol

By Donald Fanger

Book Overview

Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's groundbreaking study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through detailed analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the great modern city. This fusion reaches its aesthetic and metaphysical climax in Dostoevsky, whose vision culminating in Crime and Punishment is seen by Fanger as the final synthesis of romantic realism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011593X
• ISBN13: 9780810115934
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"