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The high stakes of identity : gambling in the life and literature of nineteenth-century Russia
- Title
- The high stakes of identity : gambling in the life and literature of nineteenth-century Russia / Ian M. Helfant.
- Author
- Helfant, Ian M.
- Publication
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 211 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
- Contents
- The memoiristic moorings of Gentry gambling mythologies -- Count Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy ("the American") and the cardsharp as provocateur -- Pushkin's ironic performances as a gambler and his relationship with I.E. Velikopol'sky, author of A satire on gamblers -- The dishonorable acts of Lermontov's Masquerade -- Shakhovskoy's Moneymadness and the rewriting of "The queen of spades" -- Begichev's The Kholinsky family and the didactic portrayal of gambling addiction -- Social and literary disruptions of gambling mythologies and Dostoevsky's critique of the Beau joueur.
- Call Number
- *QD 03-12
- ISBN
- 0810118637 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001005117
- OCLC
- 47849399
- Author
- Helfant, Ian M.
- Title
- The high stakes of identity : gambling in the life and literature of nineteenth-century Russia / Ian M. Helfant.
- Imprint
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.
- Series
- Studies in Russian literature and theory
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *QD 03-12