Suicide As a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

Irina Paperno

Cornell University Press, 1998

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Analyzing a variety of sources—medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides—Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s–1880s.

ISBN-13
9780801484254
ISBN-10
0801484251
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1998
Publication date
1998-02-19
Pages
336
Dimensions
229x152x22
Weight
450