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Introduction: The Fin-de-siècle Mood In Russian Literature / Ani Kokobobo And Katherine Bowers -- Anxieties Of Disintegration. The Russian Rougon-macquart: Degeneration And Biological Determinism In The Golovlev Family / Kate Holland; The Hiding Places Of The Self In Dostoevsky's Adolescent / Yuri Corrigan; A Childhood's Garden Of Despair: Dostoevsky And A Boy At Christ's Christmas Party / Robin Feuer Miller; The Railway And The Elemental Force: Slavophilism, Pan-slavism, And Apocalyptic Anxieties In Anna Karenina / Alexander Burry And S. Ceilidh Orr -- Destabilizing Gender And Sexuality. Mister Russian Beast: Civilization's Discontents In Turgenev / Emma Lieber; Masculine Degeneration In Dostoevsky's Demons / Connor Doak; The Burden Of Superfluity: Reconsidering Female Heroism In Chekhov's The Seagull / Jenny Kaminer -- Generic Experimentation And Hybridity. The Fall Of The House: Gothic Narrative And The Decline Of The Russian Family / Katherine Bowers; Corpses Of Desire And Convention: Tolstoy's And Artsybashev's Grotesque Realism / Ani Kokobobo; The Little Man In The Overcoat: Gogol And Krzhizhanovsky / Muireann Maguire; Icons, Eclipses, And Stepping Off The Train: Vladimir Korolenko And The Ocherk / Jane Costlow -- Facing Death And Decay. Decadent Ecosystems In Uncle Vanya: A Chorographic Mediation / Thomas Newlin; The Mute Body: Leonid Andreev's Abject Realism / Edith W. Clowes; The Thinking Oyster: Turgenev's Drama Of Dying As The Decay Of Russian Realism / Ilya Vinitsky -- Afterword: On The Potential Of Ends / Caryl Emerson. Edited By Katherine Bowers And Ani Kokobobo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Cambridge Available Via World Wide Web. English.