Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin Lermontov Gogol Turgenev Saltykov-Shchedrin Dostoevsky Tolstoy and Chekhov. They address the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in different contexts and to different audiences from undergraduate students reading Russian classics in the context of general education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in English translation a few in the original but all offer useful strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience. Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour Ksana Blank Ellen Chances Nicholas Dames Andrew R. Durkin Jefferson J.A. Gatrall Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier Robert Louis Jackson Liza Knapp Deborah A. Martinsen Olga Meerson Maude Meisel Robin Feuer Miller Marcia A. Morris Gary Saul Morson Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy Cathy Popkin Irina Reyfman Rebecca Stanton William Mills Todd III and Nancy Workman.