Andrew M. Drozd is associate professor of Russian at the University of Alabama. Brendan G. Mooney is Fellow at the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and visiting assistant professor of Russian at Miami University of Ohio.
This excellent collection of essays not only revisits, but also rethinks, revises, and rediscovers the radical critics of mid-nineteenth-century Russian literature. It includes provocative studies of familiar figures (Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky, and Pisarev), as well as new work on lesser-known critics (Kushchevsky, Osipovich-Novodvorsky, and others). It is both an illuminating and refreshing read… -- Michael R. Katz, C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College