Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface

Introduction: Russian Literature and its Demons: Introductory Essay
Pamela Davidson

PART I: TRADITIONS AND CONTEXTS

Chapter 1. Nostalgia for Hell: Russian Literary Demonism and Orthodox Tradition
Simon Franklin

Chapter 2. The Russian Folk Devil and His Literary Reflections
Faith Wigzell

Chapter 3. Antichrist Enthroned: Demonic Visions of Russian Rulers
Kevin Platt

Chapter 4. Divine Service or Idol Worship? Russian Views of Art as Demonic
Pamela Davidson

PART II: LITERARY DEMONS

Chapter 5. The Muse and the Demon in the Poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov and Blok
Pamela Davidson

Chapter 6. Lermontov's The Demon: Identity and Axiology
Robert Reid

Chapter 7. The Devil is in the Detail: Demonic Features of Gogol's Petersburg
Julian Graffy

Chapter 8. The Devils' Vaudeville: "Decoding" the Demonic in Dostoevsky's The Devils
W. J. Leatherbarrow

Chapter 9. Rozanov and His Literary Demons
Liza Dimbleby

Chapter 10. The Demon. The Mythopoetic World Model in the Art of Lermontov, Vrubel, Blok
Avril Pyman

Chapter 11. The Demonomania of Sorcerers: Satanism in the Russian Symbolist Novel
Adam Weiner

Chapter 12. Symbolist Devils and Acmeist Transformation: Gumilev, Demonism, and the Absent Hero in Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero
Michael Basker

Chapter 13. Playing Devil's Advocate: Paradox and Parody in Zamiatin's "The Miracle of Ash Wednesday"
Philip Cavendish

Chapter 14. Literary Representations of Stalin and Stalinism as Demonic
Rosalind Marsh

Index

About the Author

Pamela Davidson is Professor of Russian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College, London.

Reviews

"On the whole, the volume reads like a cohesive book ... and maintains a high standard of scholarship throughout. Investigators of Russian literary demonism in the future will surely want to consult this excellent work."  · The Russian Review "... this collection displays a degree of mutual collaboration, as well as a consistently high quality, that surpasses that of most collections of essays ... it has much to praise and little to fault."  · Slavic Review "It will become a valuable reference for undergraduates and postgraduates in the Slavic and Comparative Literature fields."   · Australian and East European Studies "The scholarly excellence of individual contributions and the high standard that marks the constituent articles without exception … this volume is well thought out in conception and every effort appears to have been made by the editor to give it methodological cohesion. No doubt will it become a valuable reference for undergraduates and postgraduates in Slavic and Comparative Literature fields."   · Australian Slavonic and East European Studies