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Author:   David M. Bethea (University of Wisconsin, Madison) ,  Siggy Frank (University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781107108646

ISBN 10:   1107108640
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   24 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: contextualizing Nabokov David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank; Part I. Identity: 1. Nabokov: a life in contexts I: Russia and emigration Brian Boyd; 2. Nabokov: a life in contexts II: beyond the emigration Brian Boyd; 3. Childhood Barbara Wyllie; 4. Women Lara Delage-Toriel; 5. Friends and foes Julian W. Connolly; 6. Academia Susan Elizabeth Sweeney; 7. Authorial persona Maria Malikova; Part II. Places: 8. St Petersburg Gennady Barabtarlo; 9. Cambridge Beci Carver; 10. Berlin Stanislav Shvabrin; 11. Paris John Burt Foster, Jr; 12. East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; 13. Switzerland East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; Part III. Literature and Arts: 14. The Russian literary canon Alexander Dolinin; 15. The Western literary canon Michael Wood; 16. Publishing: Russian Émigré literature Siggy Frank; 17. Publishing: American literature Duncan White; 18. Detective fiction Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 19. Samizdat and Tamizdat Ann Komaromi; 20. Nabokov's visual imagination Marijeta Bozovic; 21. Popular culture Nassim Winnie Balestrini; Part IV. Ideas and Cultures: 22. Science Stephen H. Blackwell; 23. Darwinism David M. Bethea; 24. Psychoanalysis Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 25. Faith Sergei Davydov; 26. Jewishness as literary device in Nabokov's fiction Leonid Livak; 27. Liberalism Dana Dragunoiu; 28. Totalitarianism Olga Voronina; 29. The Cold War Will Norman; 30. The long 1950s Andrea Carosso; 31. Transnationalism Rachel Trousdale; Further reading.

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'Vladimir Nabokov in Context offers a competent and highly readable exploration of the complex relationship between the man and his work in the global context of his time ... [It] is a very commendable effort, and a valuable resource on the circumstances that fashioned Nabokov and his art.' Rene Alladaye, The Slavonic and East European Review

'Vladimir Nabokov in Context offers a competent and highly readable exploration of the complex relationship between the man and his work in the global context of his time ... [It] is a very commendable effort, and a valuable resource on the circumstances that fashioned Nabokov and his art.' Rene Alladaye, The Slavonic and East European Review 'Vladimir Nabokov in Context offers a competent and highly readable exploration of the complex relationship between the man and his work in the global context of his time ... [It] is a very commendable effort, and a valuable resource on the circumstances that fashioned Nabokov and his art.' Rene Alladaye, The Slavonic and East European Review

Author Information

David Bethea is emeritus Vilas Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Apart from several articles on Nabokov his publications include The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (Selected Essays) (2009); Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (1998) and Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (1994). He is also the editor of The Pushkin Handbook (2006, 2013), Puškin Today (1993) and an annotated edition of Pushkin's works in Russian. Siggy Frank is assistant professor in Russian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of several articles on Nabokov and the monograph Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination (Cambridge, 2012).

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