Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Before They Were Titans -- Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840s -- I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk -- II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double -- III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in "Another Man's Wife," "The Jealous Husband," and The Eternal Husband -- IV. Dostoevsky's White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology -- V. Dostoevsky's Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova -- Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850s -- VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art -- VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy's "The Raid" and Russian Journalism -- VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe -- IX. On Cultivating One's Own Garden with Other People's Labor: Serfdom in "A Landowner's Morning" -- X. Tolstoy's Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation -- An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things.

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