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Frontmatter, List of Illustrations, Preface, Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Snakes at Yasnaya Polyana
Part I: Passe-Partout: Tolstoy's Image
Chapter 1 The Myth of Misogyny:
De-Moralizing Tolstoy
Chapter 2 The Judgment of Anna
Karenina: Feminist Criticism and the Image of the Heroine
Chapter 3 Beyond the Motivations of
Realism: Tolstoy, the Victorian, Novel, and Iconic Aesthetics
Part II: Frame: Image and the Boundaries of Vision in Anna Karenina
Chapter 4 The Execution of Anna
Karenina: Heroines Framed and Hung
Chapter 5 A Painted Lady: The Poetics of
Ekphrasis
Part III: Illuminations: Reading Detail and Design in Anna Karenina
Chapter 6 Knife, Book, and Candle:
The Resisting Russian Reader
Chapter 7 The Woman with a Shadow: Fables
of Demon and Psyche
Chapter 8 Picking a Mushroom and Escaping
the Marriage Plot