Introduction Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich and Emma Widdis; History 1: Movements; 1.1 The Age of Devotion Simon Franklin; 1.2 The Baroque Age Simon Franklin; 1.3 The Age of Classicism Marcus C. Levitt; 1.4 Sentimentalism and Romanticism Ilya Vinitsky; 1.5 The Natural School and Realism Alexey Vdovin; 1.6 Symbolism and the Fin de Siècle Yuri Corrigan; 1.7 Modernism and the Avant-Garde Connor Doak; 1.8 Socialist Realism Evgeny Dobrenko; 1.9 Postmodernism Ilya Kukulin; 1.10 Contemporary Movements Marijeta Bozovic; Boxes 1: Close Readings; 1.1 A Nineteenth-Century Verse Form: The Onegin Stanza Michael Wachtel; 1.2 A Nineteenth-Century Prose Form: A Hero of Our Time William Mills Todd III; 1.3 A Twentieth-Century Verse Form: Maiakovskii's lesenka Isobel Palmer; 1.4 A Micro-Story: 'Blue Notebook No. 10' Ilya Kukulin; 1.5 An Internet Form: The Meme Ellen Rutten; Boxes 2: Genres; 2.1 Povest' Lyudmila Parts; 2.2 Satire Evgeny Dobrenko; 2.3 Travelogue Lyudmila Parts; 2.4 Children's Literature Connor Doak; 2.5 Civic Poetry Ilya Kukulin; History 2: Mechanisms; 2.1 The Monastery Simon Franklin; 2.2 The Court Alexei Evstratov; 2.3 The Salon and the Circle Ilya Vinitsky; 2.4 The Thick Journal William Mills Todd III; 2.5 The Publisher William Mills Todd III; 2.6 Queerness Evgenii Bershtein; 2.7 The Censor Polly Jones; 2.8 The Voice Stephen Lovell; 2.9 The Self-Publisher Josephine von Zitzewitz; 2.10 The Market Bradley A. Gorski; 2.11 The Internet Marijeta Bozovic; 2.12 Empire Vitaly Chernetsky; Boxes 3: Places; 3.1 The Camp Polly Jones; 3.2 The Front Alexei Evstratov; 3.3 St Petersburg Josephine von Zitzewitz; 3.4 The Village Alexey Vdovin; 3.5 The Apartment Stephen Lovell; Boxes 4: Narrative Voices; 4.1 The Medieval First-Person Singular Simon Franklin; 4.2 The Unreliable Narrator Julie Curtis; 4.3 Skaz Jessica Merrill; 4.4 The Omniscient Narrator William Mills Todd III; 4.5 The Collective Voice Bradley A. Gorski; History 3: Forms; 3.1 Forms before Genres Simon Franklin; 3.2 Folk Genres Jessica Merrill; 3.3 Verse I Michael Wachtel; 3.4 Drama I Kirill Zubkov; 3.5 The Novel I Anna A. Berman; 3.6 The Short Story Lyudmila Parts; 3.7 Drama II Julie Curtis; 3.8 Verse II Isobel Palmer; 3.9 The Novel II Evgeny Dobrenko; 3.10 Self-Writing Emily Van Buskirk; 3.11 (Plat)forms after Genres Ellen Rutten; Boxes 5: Critical Frames; 5.1 Vissarion Belinskii Kirill Zubkov; 5.2 Viktor Shklovskii Emily Van Buskirk; 5.3 Lev Trotskii Connor Doak; 5.4 Mikhail Bakhtin Marijeta Bozovic; 5.5 Iurii Lotman Alexei Evstratov; Boxes 6: Literature beyond Literature; 6.1 The Igor Myth Simon Franklin; 6.2 Literature in Art Isobel Palmer; 6.3 Literature in Music Anna A. Berman; 6.4 Literature in Film Bradley A. Gorski; 6.5 The Pushkin Myth William Mills Todd III; History 4: Heroes; 4.1 The Saint Sergey Ivanov; 4.2 The Ruler Tatiana Smoliarova; 4.3 The Lowly Civil Servant Cathy Popkin; 4.4 The Peasant Alexey Vdovin; 4.5 The Intelligent Konstantine Klioutchkine; 4.6 The Russian Woman Anna A. Berman; 4.7 The New Person Emma Widdis; 4.8 The Non-Russian Michael Kunichika; 4.9 The Madman Rebecca Reich; 4.10 The Émigré Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya.