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Acknowledgments ix Note on the Text xi Introduction 3 Chapter One The Body and the Book: Poor Folk 13 Chapter Two The Spirit of St. Petersburg: White Nights 27 Chapter Three Purging Bad Money: The Gambler 43 Chapter Four Confession and Slander in Action: Crime and Punishment 67 Chapter Five The Idiot’s “Vertical Sanctuary”: The Holbein Christ and Ippolit’s Confession 93 Chapter Six The Demon of Doubt and the Revenge of the Neglected Son: Demons 104 Chapter Seven On Slander, Idolatry, and Impostors: Demons 117 Chapter Eight The Mothers Karamazov 144 Conclusion 166 Notes 171 Selected Bibliography 203 Index 217 Contents ...

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