Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground

Elizabeth A. Blake (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2018
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3984-8 (ISBN)

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While Dostoevsky's relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake's ambitious and learned Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground fills this glaring omission in the scholarship. Previous commentators have traced a wide-ranging hostility in Dostoevsky's understanding of Catholicism to his Slavophilism. Blake depicts a far more nuanced picture. Her close reading demonstrates that he is repelled and fascinated by Catholicism in all its medieval, Reformation, and modern manifestations. Dostoevsky saw in Catholicism not just an inspirational source for the Grand Inquisitor but a political force, an ideological wellspring, a unique mode of intellectual inquiry, and a source of cultural production. Blake's insightful textual analysis is accompanied by an equally penetrating analysis of nineteenth-century European revolutionary history, from Paris to Siberia, that undoubtedly influenced the evolution of Dostoevsky's thought.

Elizabeth A. Blake is an assistant professor of Russian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Saint Louis University.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	423 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
ISBN-10	0-8101-3984-7 / 0810139847
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-3984-8 / 9780810139848
Zustand	Neuware