Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy

A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in these new essays speak to today's readers with astonishing force, relevance, and complexity. In a lively, challenging style, leading scholars range over his long life, from his first work Childhood to the works of his old age like Hadji Murat, and the many genres in which he worked, from the major novels to aphorisms and short stories. The essays present new approaches to his central themes: love, death, religious faith and doubt, violence, the animal kingdom, and war. They also assess his reception both in his lifetime and subsequently. Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of current scholarship on Tolstoy.

ISBN 0521514916   Pages 278 ISBN13 9780521514910 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 580 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Height (mm) 228 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 25 Feb 2010   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 891.733   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by Donna Tussing Orwin		1
1		Tolstoy and music by Caryl Emerson		8
2		Sublime vision and self-derision: the aesthetics of death in Tolstoy by Andreas Schonle		33
3		Tolstoy's peaceable kingdom by Robin Feuer Miller		52
4		Leo Tolstoy: pacifist, patriot, and molodets by Donna Tussing Orwin		76
5		Leo Tolstoy's correspondence with Nikolai Strakhov: the dialogue on faith by Irina Paperno		96
6		The worm of doubt: Prince Andrei's death and Russian spiritual awakening of the 1860s by Ilya Vinitsky		120
7		Tolstoy's spirituality by G. M. Hamburg		138
8		Tracking the English novel in Anna Karenina: who wrote the English novel that Anna reads? by Edwina Cruise		159
9		Violence and the role of drama in the late Tolstoy: The Realm of Darkness by Justin Weir		183
10		What men quote by: Tolstoy, wise sayings, and moral tales by Gary Saul Morson		199
11		The "proletarian lord": Leo Tolstoy's image during the Russian revolutionary period by Michael A. Denner		219
		Bibliography		245
		Index		258

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