Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Russian Realism and the Gothic -- Part I. Gothic Migration -- 1 A Russian Reader's Gothic Library -- 2 Gothic Transmutations in Pushkin and Gogol -- 3 Russian Landscapes in a Gothic Frame -- 4 The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Gothic Novel -- Part II. Gothic Realism -- 5 Physiological Petersburg, Gothic Petersburg -- 6 Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question -- 7 Political Terror and the School of Horror -- 8 The Fall of the House on the Russian Estate -- Conclusion: Chekhov's Ghosts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.