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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Poverty and Imagination ix Chapter One Expelled from the Garden of Poverty: Sympathy and Literacy in “Poor Liza” 1 Chapter Two The Call of Poverty: Learning to Love the Low in “Egyptian Nights” 36 Chapter Three The Meaning of Poverty: Gogol’s Petersburg Tales 78 Chapter Four Gogol against Sympathy 108 Chapter Five “The Poverty of Our Literature” 143 Chapter Six By His Poverty: Dostoevsky and the Imitations of Christ 168 Conclusion: The Wealth of the Russian Imagination 202 Notes 213 Bibliography 263 Index 275 Contents ...