Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Poverty and Imagination
Chapter One - Expelled from the Garden of Poverty: Sympathy and Literacy in “Poor Liza”
Chapter Two - The Call of Poverty: Learning to Love the Low in “Egyptian Nights”
Chapter Three - The Meaning of Poverty: Gogol’s Petersburg Tales
Chapter Four - Gogol against Sympathy
Chapter Five - “The Poverty of Our Literature”
Chapter Six - By His Poverty: Dostoevsky and the Imitations of Christ
Conclusion: The Wealth of the Russian Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index