LEADER 03441nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910814752403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-2892-9 010 $a9786612158278 010 $a1-282-15827-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828920 035 $a(CKB)2670000000057539 035 $a(EBL)457901 035 $a(OCoLC)432996644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10055786 035 $a(PQKB)10918647 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36590 035 $a(DE-B1597)446782 035 $a(OCoLC)979749351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457901 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312491 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215827 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457901 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000057539 100 $a20071119d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDostoevsky's democracy /$fNancy Ruttenburg 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-13614-9 311 0 $a0-691-14664-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Building out the house of the dead: part I -- Building out the house of the dead: part II -- Conclusion: the Russian people, this unriddled sphinx. 330 $aDostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840's and the important novels of the 1860's. Sentenced to death in 1849 for utopian socialist political activity, the 28-year-old Dostoevsky was subjected to a mock execution and then exiled to Siberia for a decade, including four years in a forced labor camp, where he experienced a crisis of belief. It has been influentially argued that the result of this crisis was a conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and reactionary politics. But Dostoevsky's Democracy challenges this view through a close investigation of Dostoevsky's Siberian decade and its most important work, the autobiographical novel Notes from the House of the Dead (1861). Nancy Ruttenburg argues that Dostoevsky's crisis was set off by his encounter with common Russians in the labor camp, an experience that led to an intense artistic meditation on what he would call Russian "democratism." By tracing the effects of this crisis, Dostoevsky's Democracy presents a new understanding of Dostoevsky's aesthetic and political development and his role in shaping Russian modernity itself, especially in relation to the preeminent political event of his time, peasant emancipation. 606 $aDemocracy in literature 606 $aSerfdom$zRussia$xHistory 607 $aRussia$xPolitics and government$y1801-1917 615 0$aDemocracy in literature. 615 0$aSerfdom$xHistory. 676 $a891.73/3 700 $aRuttenburg$b Nancy$01694071 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814752403321 996 $aDostoevsky's democracy$94072343 997 $aUNINA