UNDERSTANDING NADEZHDA KHVOSHSHCHINSKAIA’S SHORT STORY COLLECTION AN ALBUM: GROUPS AND PORTRAITS: The Literary Innovations of a Nineteenth-Century Writer

"Rosneck's work is skilled, thorough, and dedicated and, as she remarks, it is also necessarily exploratory. My hope is that An Album: Groups and Portraits will be translated and taught regularly and that Rosneck's study will inspire more translations of Khvoshchinskaia's works as well as a wider fascination with this elusive and compelling writer." - Prof. Jehanne M. Geith, Duke University

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Jehanne Gheith

Acknowledgments

Author's Preface

Introduction

Chapter One:Women and Realist Vision in "At the Photographer's"
Chapter Two:An Unfaithful Narrative: The Success and Failure of Justice in the Story "In the Courtroom"
Chapter Three:A Consuming Ambition: THe Heroine's Tragically Plummeting Value in "Ridneva"
Chapter Four:Who is to Blame in "Veriagin"?
Chapter Five: "Among Friends": Between Egoism and the Common Good
Chapter Six: Beauty on Trial in "Fortunate People"
Chapter Seven: "(Do Not) Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here": Dante's Inferno, Canto V, and "The Blizzard"
Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

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