Böcker av Gary Rosenshield

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers-poets, novelists, critics, and historians-to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.

This study examines the treatment of physical pain in a selection of classical Greek plays and nineteenth-century Russian novels. The author highlights parallels between these Greek and Russian texts and analyzes how they employ pain to investigate the legitimacy of the state and the justice of the world order.

Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, in both his journalism and fiction. He shows how Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has from the 1980s to present.

Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and the Ridiculous Jew: A Study in the Exploitation and Transformation of the Jewish Stereotype is a study devoted to exploring the dynamic use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.