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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii Chapter One “Secrets of Art” and “Secrets of Kissing”: Toward a Poetics of Sexuality in Dostoevsky 3 Chapter Two The Insulted Female Child 17 Chapter Three Dostoevsky’s Comely Boy: Homoerotic Desire and Aesthetic Strategies in A Raw Youth 42 Chapter Four The Sexuality of the Male Virgin in A Raw Youth and The Brothers Karamazov 69 Chapter Five The “Secret Vice” of Mariia Kroneberg: A Writer’s Diary 80 Chapter Six The Missing Family 101 Appendix: Newspaper Account of the Kroneberg Trial 119 Notes 163 Bibliography 199 Index 213 ...