The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
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- Editor: Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto
- Date Published: September 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521792714
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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.
Read more- Covers all Tolstoy's main works of fiction
- The essays provide scholarly depth of analysis on a broad range of topics
- The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology and bibliography
Reviews & endorsements
'Indispensable for all who teach of study Tolstoy.' Rusistika
See more reviews'… 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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- Date Published: September 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521792714
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 159 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.572kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on editions, citations and transliterations
Chronology
Introduction: Tolstoy as artist and public figure Donna Tussing Orwin
Part I. The Three Novels:
1. War and Peace Gary Saul Morson
2. Anna Karenina Barbara Lönnqvist
3. Resurrection Hugh McLean
Part II. Genres:
4. Tolstoy as a writer of popular literature Gary R. Jahn
5. The long short story in Tolstoy's fiction Richard Freeborn
6. Tolstoy staged in Paris, Berlin and London W. Gareth Jones
Part III. General Topics:
7. The development of style and theme in Tolstoy Liza Knapp
8. History and autobiography in Tolstoy Andrew Wachtel
9. Women, sexuality, and the family in Tolstoy Edwina Cruise
10. Tolstoy in the twentieth century George R. Clay
11. Courage in Tolstoy Donna Tussing Orwin
12. Tolstoy's aesthetics Caryl Emerson
Guide to further reading
Index to Tolstoy's works and characters
General index.
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