The contrast between Tolstoy's discretion and Dostoevsky's exhibitionism, between the restraint of the one and the 'dancing about naked in public' of the other—as someone says in The Possessed—is attributable to the same social gap as separated Voltaire from Rousseau.

' Chapter 1. Naturalism and Impressionism - The Social History of Art, Volume IV. Naturalism, impressionism, the film age, 1999