TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Victims of the city in novels of Zola and Dostoevsky
JO  - CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture
A1  - Wilkinson, M.L.
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EP  - 
VL  - 14
IS  - 4
N2  - In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta L. Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson presents an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel suicide or banishment to Siberia and in Zola's novels the acceptance of inhuman life in the complicit city. © Purdue University.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1481-4374
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1867
ID  - ref1
ER  -