Dostoevsky, Demons, Dickens

A study of Dostoevsky and Dickens as two writers whose engagement in the here and now was vital to their work and to their practice of the novel.  Readings from Dostoevsky cluster in the 1870s and include two novels, Demons (1872) and The Adolescent (1876), and selections from his Diary of a Writer.  Readings from Dickens span his career and include, in addition to David Copperfield (1850), sketches and later essays.