This chapter presents a case study of the gothic novel reader and the way notions about gothic novels and their readers developed in Russia. The chapter takes a comparative approach, drawing on reviews and reader accounts from both England and Russia, to demonstrate how similar attitudes in both countries were despite Russia’s later gothic wave.…[Read more]

This article examines the epilogue of Dostoevskii’s novel Crime and Punishment from the perspective of genre and generic expectation. Considering two generic plots that appear in the novel, the detective plot and the redemption narrative, the author argues that the imagined reader’s generic expectation is both satisfied and thwarted in each cas…[Read more]

This short chapter discusses Dostoevskii’s incorporation of the Ol’ga Umetskaia’s case into The Idiot.

Der Beitrag betrachtet die Geschichte der zur Stadt Ravensburg gehörigen Ortschaft Taldorf vom frühen Mittelalter bis in die Zeit um 1300. Am Beginn steht eine Beschäftigung mit der ersten die Taldorfer Orte betreffenden Urkunde, die über eine Schenkung des Priesters Engilbert an das Kloster Reichenau im Jahr 816 berichtet. Davon ausgehend wer…[Read more]

Neither of the two houses in Constance belonging to the collegiate chapter of Bischofszell served as its official city seat. Using the example of the house zur Krone, the essay explores the social environment of a canon and his connection to the collegiate’s seat. In 1311, Konrad, a doctor and a canon of the collegiate chapter, bestowed his h…[Read more]