Turgenev : A Reading of his Fiction (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction: Turgenev and his antinomies; 1. Life and reputation; 2. Poetry, plays, criticism; 3. First stories; 4. Serfs and serf-owners: A Sportsman's Sketches; 5. Transition: the end of serfdom: the 'superfluous man'; 6. Love and the superfluous man; 7. 'Hamlet and Don Quixote' - Rudin; 8. The 'Turgenev heroine': A Nest of Gentry; 9. The New Man and the New Woman: On the Eve; 10. The first nihilist: Fathers and Children; 11. The legacy of nihilism: 'Enough', Smoke; 12. 'There are more things in heaven and earth'; 13. The years that are no more; 14. Down memory lane; 15. Seeds of revolution: Virgin Soil; 16. The last writings; 17. Epilogue; Notes; Index.