Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness

Sarah Hudspith is a lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her main area of specialism is nineteenth century Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

• Introduction: The Slavophile Context.1. Dostoevsky's Ideological Position with Regard to the Slavophile Movement.2. The Dramatisation in Dostoevsky's Fiction of Themes Found in Slavophile Thought.3. The Iranian Text: Slavophile Principles Applied to the Practice of Writing.Concluding Remarks.

'Hudspith's conclusion - that Dostoevsky did not embrace Slavophilism wholesale but used and engaged with the movement to develop his own ideas - is judicious. It is also refreshing to find a recent study of Dostoevsky that assesses him as both artist and thinker.' - SEER'This book offers a meticulous analysis of the correspondences between Russian identity held by Dostoevsky and by the Slavophiles...Its clear presentation, highly readable format and useful appendices...should make this study a particularly useful text for university courses on nineteenth-century Russian literature.' - Slavic and East European Journal