Ghostly paradoxes: modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism

Introduction: a new world

modern spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s

Seance as test, or, Russian writers at a spiritualist rendezvous

Russian glubbdubdrib: the shade of false Dimitry and Russian historical imagination in the age of realism

Dead poets' society: Pushkin's shade in Russian cultural mythology of the second half of the nineteenth century

Flickering hands: the spiritualist realism of Nikolai Vagner

The middle world: the realist spiritualism of Saltykov-Schedrin

The underworld: Dostoevsky's ontological realism

The (dis)infection: art and hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy

Epilogue: the spirit of literature: reflections on Leskov's artistic spiritualism.