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Introduction / Cathy Popkin, Deborah Martinsen, Irina Reyfman -- Text and teacher. The teacher and the text: the pragmatic sleuth in the classroom / Robin Feuer Miller -- Text and context I. Teaching contexts / Robert L. Belknap -- Text, then theory. Theorizing vs. teaching literary theory: what is to be done with Crime and punishment? / Olga Meerson -- Text and language. Literature in the original for the defective detective, or teaching suspect grammar to unsuspecting students / Irina Reyfman -- Text and epigraph. "The way of the grain": teaching The Brothers Karamazov through the novel's epigraph / Ksana Blank -- Text and biblical text. Teaching Raskolnikov's dream: regarding the pain of others in the classroom / Liza Knapp -- Text plus text. Chekhov's "In exile" and "The student": text/countertext as strategy / Andrew R. Durkin -- Text plus text plus text. Three deaths: a boy, a goose, and an infant / Robert Louis Jackson -- Text and reader I. Turgenev's preoccupations / Nicholas Dames -- Text with blanks. This page left intentionally blank: Absences in Anna Karenina / Gary Saul Morson -- Text and reader II. Getting away with murder: teaching Crime and punishment / Deborah A. Martinsen -- Text and philosophy. Notes from a cave: teaching Notes from underground in a philosophy course / Nancy Workman -- Text and context II. Dostoevsky's Notes from underground revisited, plus a few thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh / Ellen Chances -- Text and printing. The birth of a novel from the work of journalism: teaching Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlevs / William Mills Todd III -- Text and history. An inconvenient footnote: Lermontov's "Bela" and the Circassian expulsion / Jefferson J.A. Gatrall -- Text in syllabus I. Teaching "Literature and empire": the case for Anna Karenina / Cathy Popkin -- Text in Syllabus II. Reading for the self: unwrapping the nested autobiographies in Lermontov's A hero of our time / Rebecca Stanton -- Text and genre. Unsettling students: road rage and the quest for fixity in Dead souls / Marcia A. Morris -- Text, genre, and morality I. Searching for freedom in Eugene Onegin / Svetlana Grenier -- Text, genre, and morality II. Examining Lensky's body: forensic pedagogy / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Text and performance. The power of pedagogy: dispelling the darkness in Tolstoy's drama / Maude Meisel -- Unperformable text. "Visible only in very clear weather": teaching Chekhov's second acts / Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour. Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in different contexts and to different audiences, from undergraduate students reading Russian classics in the context of general education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in English translation, a few in the original, but all offer useful strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience. Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Ksana Blank, Ellen Chances, Nicholas Dames, Andrew R. Durkin, Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Robert Louis Jackson, Liza Knapp, Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Meerson, Maude Meisel, Robin Feuer Miller, Marcia A. Morris, Gary Saul Morson, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman, Rebecca Stanton, William Mills Todd III, and Nancy Workman
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