New Essays on Dostoyevsky (Paperback)

Contributors; Editors' preface; Introduction Malcolm V. Jones; Part I: 1. The young Dostoyevsky: an assessment in the light of recent scholarship Victor Terras; 2. The causes of crime and the meaning of law: Crime and Punishment and contemporary radical thought Derek Offord; 3. Across the threshold: The Idiot as a Petersburg tale Sidney Monas; 4. The Devils: the role of Stavrogin R. M. Davison; 5. Ivan Karamazov F. F. Seeley; Part II: 6. The religious dimension: vision or evasion? Zosima's discourse in The Brothers Karamazov Sergei Hackel; 7. The philosophical dimension: self and freedom Steward R. Sutherland; 8. Formalist and structuralist approaches to Dostoyevsky Christopher R. Pike; Dostoyevsky studies in Great Britain: a bibliographical survey Garth M. Terry; Index.