Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism
Author: Donald Fanger
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780810115934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDostoevsky 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.