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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552785303321

Autore

Valentino Russell Scott <1962->

Titolo

The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel / / Russell Scott Valentino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus, : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]

ISBN

0-8142-7328-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

891.73/009

Soggetti

Virtue in literature

Masculinity in literature

Russian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Russian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue -- Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window -- The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls -- In search of the virtuous man : minor readings -- Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L -- Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.