Julie Buckler has spent her academic career at Harvard. She works on nineteenth-century Russian literature, performing arts, and urban cultures. Buckler is the author of two award-winning books: The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (Stanford, 2000) and Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityscape (Princeton, 2005). In addition to The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel, Buckler has also co-edited two other collection of essays: Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern, 2013) and Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action (Wisconsin, 2018).Justin Weir has been a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University since 2000. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian novels, literary theory, and Soviet film. His publications include a volume of translations edited and translated with Timothy Langen (Eight Russian Plays, Northwestern UP, 2000), and two monographsdevoted to Russian novelists: The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Nabokov, Pasternak, and Bulgakov (Northwestern UP, 2002), and Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative (Yale UP, 2011). A Russian translation of The Author as Hero was published by Academic Studies Press in 2022.

• Contents About the Editors List of Contributors Introduction by co-editors Julie A. Buckler and Justin Weir Part I. The History of the Russian Novel 1. First Novels, First Publics - Luba Golburt and Bella Grigoryan 2. Russian Novelists and the Mind of Europe - Lina Steiner 3. The Noncanonical Status of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel - William Mills Todd III 4. The Russian Novel in the Age of Modernism - Julie Curtis 5. The Soviet Novel as a Work of Grief - Evgeny Dobrenko 6. The Postmodernist Russian Novel: An Attempt at Typology - Mark Lipovetsky 7. The Contemporary Russian Novel - Jacob Emery 8. Svetlana Alexievich and the Novel Tradition - Justin Weir Part II. Theories of the Novel and the Russian Tradition 9. Russian Formalism and the Novel - Thomas Seifrid 10. The Word about the Word: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel - Alexander Spektor 11. Mind Games: On Psychology in the Russian Novel - Angela Brintlinger 12. An Uneasy Compact: The Russian Novel as Philosophy - Jeff Love 13. Ethics and the Russian Novel - Gary Saul Morson Part III. Geographies and Cultural Spaces in the Russian Novel 14. Empire and the Russian Novel - Edyta M. Bojanowska 15. Nature in the Russian Novel - Jane Costlow 16. Siberia and the Queerness of the Russian Novel - Ani Kokobobo 17. Escape Vehicles: Yiddish and the Russian Novel - Gabriella Safran 18. Race, Ethnicity, and the Russian Novel - Michael Kunichika Part IV. Modes of Understanding and Experience in the Russian Novel 19. Seeing the (Russian) Novel -- Molly Brunson 20. The Haunted House: Spiritualism and the Realist Novel -- Ilya Vinitsky 21. Bodily Expression, Gesture, and Knowledge in the Russian Novel - Timothy Langen 22. Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Their Smalls: Children and Animals - Robin Miller 23. Coping with Matter in the Russian Novel: Anatomists, Alchemists, Geologists, and Collectors - Michal Oklot 24. Dostoevsky's Depth Theology - Yuri Corrigan 25. Grotesque Fictions: Posthumanism and the Novel - Julia Vaingurt Part V. Ideologies in Novel Form 26. Why Don't We Read Them? The Underwater Corpus of Nineteenth-Century Russian Realist Novels - Julie A. Buckler 27. The Woman Question: Learned Noblewomen Writers - Hilde Hoogenboom 28. Crime and Terrorism in the Russian Novel - Julia Chadaga 29. Seriousness, Humor and the Contradictions of Late Socialism - Ann Komaromi Part VI. Worlding the Russian Novel 30. The Russian Novel in English Translation - Catherine McAteer 31. Russian Novels of the Émigré Everyday - Tatyana Gershkovich 32. Global Cooling: From the Fluid Transnationalism of Ada to the Frigid Poetics of Transparent Things - Eric Naiman 33. First as Comedy, then as Nationalism: The Immigrant Post-Soviet Novel between America and Israel - Alex Moshkin and Sasha Senderovich 33. The Russophone Novel: Past, Present, and Uncertain Future - Nathan Goldstone Index

Julie Buckler has spent her academic career at Harvard. She works on nineteenth-century Russian literature, performing arts, and urban cultures. Buckler is the author of two award-winning books: The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (Stanford, 2000) and Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityscape (Princeton, 2005). In addition to The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel, Buckler has also co-edited two other collection of essays: Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern, 2013) and Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action (Wisconsin, 2018).Justin Weir has been a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University since 2000. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian novels, literary theory, and Soviet film. His publications include a volume of translations edited and translated with Timothy Langen (Eight Russian Plays, Northwestern UP, 2000), and two monographsdevoted to Russian novelists: The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Nabokov, Pasternak, and Bulgakov (Northwestern UP, 2002), and Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative (Yale UP, 2011). A Russian translation of The Author as Hero was published by Academic Studies Press in 2022.

• Contents About the Editors List of Contributors Introduction by co-editors Julie A. Buckler and Justin Weir Part I. The History of the Russian Novel 1. First Novels, First Publics - Luba Golburt and Bella Grigoryan 2. Russian Novelists and the Mind of Europe - Lina Steiner 3. The Noncanonical Status of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel - William Mills Todd III 4. The Russian Novel in the Age of Modernism - Julie Curtis 5. The Soviet Novel as a Work of Grief - Evgeny Dobrenko 6. The Postmodernist Russian Novel: An Attempt at Typology - Mark Lipovetsky 7. The Contemporary Russian Novel - Jacob Emery 8. Svetlana Alexievich and the Novel Tradition - Justin Weir Part II. Theories of the Novel and the Russian Tradition 9. Russian Formalism and the Novel - Thomas Seifrid 10. The Word about the Word: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel - Alexander Spektor 11. Mind Games: On Psychology in the Russian Novel - Angela Brintlinger 12. An Uneasy Compact: The Russian Novel as Philosophy - Jeff Love 13. Ethics and the Russian Novel - Gary Saul Morson Part III. Geographies and Cultural Spaces in the Russian Novel 14. Empire and the Russian Novel - Edyta M. Bojanowska 15. Nature in the Russian Novel - Jane Costlow 16. Siberia and the Queerness of the Russian Novel - Ani Kokobobo 17. Escape Vehicles: Yiddish and the Russian Novel - Gabriella Safran 18. Race, Ethnicity, and the Russian Novel - Michael Kunichika Part IV. Modes of Understanding and Experience in the Russian Novel 19. Seeing the (Russian) Novel -- Molly Brunson 20. The Haunted House: Spiritualism and the Realist Novel -- Ilya Vinitsky 21. Bodily Expression, Gesture, and Knowledge in the Russian Novel - Timothy Langen 22. Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Their Smalls: Children and Animals - Robin Miller 23. Coping with Matter in the Russian Novel: Anatomists, Alchemists, Geologists, and Collectors - Michal Oklot 24. Dostoevsky's Depth Theology - Yuri Corrigan 25. Grotesque Fictions: Posthumanism and the Novel - Julia Vaingurt Part V. Ideologies in Novel Form 26. Why Don't We Read Them? The Underwater Corpus of Nineteenth-Century Russian Realist Novels - Julie A. Buckler 27. The Woman Question: Learned Noblewomen Writers - Hilde Hoogenboom 28. Crime and Terrorism in the Russian Novel - Julia Chadaga 29. Seriousness, Humor and the Contradictions of Late Socialism - Ann Komaromi Part VI. Worlding the Russian Novel 30. The Russian Novel in English Translation - Catherine McAteer 31. Russian Novels of the Émigré Everyday - Tatyana Gershkovich 32. Global Cooling: From the Fluid Transnationalism of Ada to the Frigid Poetics of Transparent Things - Eric Naiman 33. First as Comedy, then as Nationalism: The Immigrant Post-Soviet Novel between America and Israel - Alex Moshkin and Sasha Senderovich 33. The Russophone Novel: Past, Present, and Uncertain Future - Nathan Goldstone Index

Julie Buckler has spent her academic career at Harvard. She works on nineteenth-century Russian literature, performing arts, and urban cultures. Buckler is the author of two award-winning books: The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia (Stanford, 2000) and Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityscape (Princeton, 2005). In addition to The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel, Buckler has also co-edited two other collection of essays: Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Northwestern, 2013) and Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action (Wisconsin, 2018).Justin Weir has been a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University since 2000. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian novels, literary theory, and Soviet film. His publications include a volume of translations edited and translated with Timothy Langen (Eight Russian Plays, Northwestern UP, 2000), and two monographsdevoted to Russian novelists: The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Nabokov, Pasternak, and Bulgakov (Northwestern UP, 2002), and Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative (Yale UP, 2011). A Russian translation of The Author as Hero was published by Academic Studies Press in 2022.

• Contents About the Editors List of Contributors Introduction by co-editors Julie A. Buckler and Justin Weir Part I. The History of the Russian Novel 1. First Novels, First Publics - Luba Golburt and Bella Grigoryan 2. Russian Novelists and the Mind of Europe - Lina Steiner 3. The Noncanonical Status of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel - William Mills Todd III 4. The Russian Novel in the Age of Modernism - Julie Curtis 5. The Soviet Novel as a Work of Grief - Evgeny Dobrenko 6. The Postmodernist Russian Novel: An Attempt at Typology - Mark Lipovetsky 7. The Contemporary Russian Novel - Jacob Emery 8. Svetlana Alexievich and the Novel Tradition - Justin Weir Part II. Theories of the Novel and the Russian Tradition 9. Russian Formalism and the Novel - Thomas Seifrid 10. The Word about the Word: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel - Alexander Spektor 11. Mind Games: On Psychology in the Russian Novel - Angela Brintlinger 12. An Uneasy Compact: The Russian Novel as Philosophy - Jeff Love 13. Ethics and the Russian Novel - Gary Saul Morson Part III. Geographies and Cultural Spaces in the Russian Novel 14. Empire and the Russian Novel - Edyta M. Bojanowska 15. Nature in the Russian Novel - Jane Costlow 16. Siberia and the Queerness of the Russian Novel - Ani Kokobobo 17. Escape Vehicles: Yiddish and the Russian Novel - Gabriella Safran 18. Race, Ethnicity, and the Russian Novel - Michael Kunichika Part IV. Modes of Understanding and Experience in the Russian Novel 19. Seeing the (Russian) Novel -- Molly Brunson 20. The Haunted House: Spiritualism and the Realist Novel -- Ilya Vinitsky 21. Bodily Expression, Gesture, and Knowledge in the Russian Novel - Timothy Langen 22. Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Their Smalls: Children and Animals - Robin Miller 23. Coping with Matter in the Russian Novel: Anatomists, Alchemists, Geologists, and Collectors - Michal Oklot 24. Dostoevsky's Depth Theology - Yuri Corrigan 25. Grotesque Fictions: Posthumanism and the Novel - Julia Vaingurt Part V. Ideologies in Novel Form 26. Why Don't We Read Them? The Underwater Corpus of Nineteenth-Century Russian Realist Novels - Julie A. Buckler 27. The Woman Question: Learned Noblewomen Writers - Hilde Hoogenboom 28. Crime and Terrorism in the Russian Novel - Julia Chadaga 29. Seriousness, Humor and the Contradictions of Late Socialism - Ann Komaromi Part VI. Worlding the Russian Novel 30. The Russian Novel in English Translation - Catherine McAteer 31. Russian Novels of the Émigré Everyday - Tatyana Gershkovich 32. Global Cooling: From the Fluid Transnationalism of Ada to the Frigid Poetics of Transparent Things - Eric Naiman 33. First as Comedy, then as Nationalism: The Immigrant Post-Soviet Novel between America and Israel - Alex Moshkin and Sasha Senderovich 33. The Russophone Novel: Past, Present, and Uncertain Future - Nathan Goldstone Index