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Introduction -- Mad ambition -- Gogol's gift -- Dostoevsky's money -- The miser never dies
Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century Russian prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist Ru…