The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy's writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy's life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

ISBN 0521792711   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780521792714 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 590 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Series title Cambridge Companions to Literature Publication date 19 Sep 2002   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress PG   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 891.733   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Notes on contributors
		Editor's preface
		Acknowledgments
		Note on editions, citations, and transliterations
		Chronology		1
		Introduction: Tolstoy as artist and public figure by Donna Tussing Orwin		49
1		War and Peace by Gary Saul Morson		65
2		Anna Karenina by Barbara Lonnqvist		80
3		Resurrection by Hugh McLean		96
4		Tolstoy as a writer of popular literature by Gary R. Jahn		113
5		The long short story in Tolstoy's fiction by Richard Freeborn		127
6		Tolstoy staged in Paris, Berlin, and London by W. Gareth Jones		142
7		The development of style and theme in Tolstoy by Liza Knapp		161
8		History and autobiography in Tolstoy by Andrew Wachtel		176
9		Women, sexuality, and the family in Tolstoy by Edwina Cruise		191
10		Tolstoy in the twentieth century by George R. Clay		206
11		Courage in Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin		222
12		Tolstoy's aesthetics by Caryl Emerson		237
		Guide to further reading		252
		Index to Tolstoy's works and characters		259
		General index		264

'Indispensable for all who teach of study Tolstoy.' Rusistika '... it must be said that these are, without exception, very good essays ... For Tolstoi specialists this book, like all good books, provides fertile ground for future research ... for the more general reader this collection of clearly written essays, based on recent research, and including some useful websites, will be welcome. if it helps to bolster the study of Tolstoi in UK Russian departments it will be doubly welcome.' Slavonic & East European Review '... superb ... Every essay in this collection exhibits a high quality of arguement, knowledge, insight and clarity of exposition. Specialists and general readers alike will want to read them all, and in so doing will find their understanding of Tolstoi, as man, artist and public figures, greatly enriched.' Journal of European Studies

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