Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely’s "Petersburg

• IntroductionLeonid LivakOn Translating PetersburgJohn ElsworthPart One. The Intellectual ContextRevolutionary Terrorism and Provocation in PetersburgLynn E. PatykPetersburg and Modern OccultismMaria CarlsonPetersburg and Russian NietzscheanismEdith W. ClowesNeo-Kantianism in PetersburgTimothy LangenPetersburg and the Philosophy of Henri BergsonHilary FinkPetersburg and the New Science of PsychologyJudith Wermuth-AtkinsonPetersburg and Contemporary Racial ThoughtHenrietta MondryPetersburg as Apocalyptic FictionDavid M. BetheaPart Two. The Aesthetic ContextPetersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and LiteratureSteven CassedyTheatricality and Life-Creation in Russian Modernist Culture and in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg Colleen McQuillenPetersburg and Modernist Painting with WordsOlga MatichPetersburg and Urbanism in the Modernist NovelTaras KoznarskyPetersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist FictionVioleta SotirovaAids for Reading and Studying PetersburgAn Annotated SynopsisLeonid LivakRecommended Critical Literature in EnglishIndex

The fifteen distinguished contributors do more than elucidate a world-class novel. They provide capsule courses on a spectrum of topics that mattered deeply to Andrei Bely but are obscure to many readers today: anthroposophy, neoKantianism, 'life-creation,' racial thinking, political terrorism. A path-breaking literary portal."" - Caryl Emerson, Princeton University""Succeeds in making a challenging modernist novel more accessible to nonspecialists. Students and fans of Bely's work at every level will appreciate this fine and informative critical companion to Petersburg."" - Emily Johnson, author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself