The woman in the window : commerce, consensual fantasy, and the quest for masculine virtue in the Russian novel / Russell Scott Valentino.

"In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia. This...

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Main Author: Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue
  • Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window
  • The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls
  • In search of the virtuous man : minor readings
  • Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L
  • Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.