Overview

Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and Russian literary traditions. His non-fiction incensed readers and drew a massive following, making Tolstoy an important religious force as well as a stubborn polemicist in many fields. Through his involvement with Gandhi and the Indian independence movement, his aid in relocating the Doukhobors to Canada, his correspondence with American abolitionists and his polemics with scientists in the periodical press, Tolstoy engaged a vast array of national and international contexts of his time in his life and thought. This volume introduces those contexts and situates Tolstoy—the man and the writer—in the rich and tumultuous period in which his intellectual and creative output came to fruition.

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Author:   Anna A. Berman (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781108479240

ISBN 10:   1108479243
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I. The Man: 1. The Life Andrei Zorin; 2. The Death William Nickell; 3. Tolstoy's family Rosamund Bartlett; 4. Estate culture and yasnaya polyana Hilde Hoogenboom; Part II. Russian social and political contexts: 5. Peasants and Folklore Sibelan Forrester; 6. Emancipation and the great reforms Anne Hruska; 7. Nobility and the Russian class system Bella Grigoryan; 8. The Russian Orthodox Church Francesca Silano; 9. Law Tatiana Borisova; 10. Politics G. M. Hamburg; 11. War and the military Donna Tussing Orwin; 12. Tolstoyans Charlotte Alston; 13. Clothing Daniel Green; 14. The woman question Anne Lounsbery; 15. The Family Anna A. Berman; Part III. Literature, The Arts, and intellectual life: 16. Tolstoy's Oeuvre Chloë Kitzinger; 17. Peasant schools and education Daniel Moulin-Stożek; 18. Russian philosophy Randall A. Poole; 19. The Russian literary scene Ilya Vinitsky; 20. European literature Priscilla Meyer and Melissa Frazier; 21. European philosophy Jeff Love; 22. Theater Caryl Emerson; 23. Music Emily Frey; 24. The visual arts Maria Taroutina; Part IV. Science and technology: 25. The mechanized world Julia Vaingurt; 26. The natural world Thomas Newlin; 27. Darwin and natural science Michael D. Gordin; 28. Medical science Elena Fratto; Part V. Beyond Russia 29. Pacifism and the doukhobors Veronika Makarova; 30. America Galina Alekseeva; 31. India Suvij Sudershan; 32. Eastern Religion Jeff Love; 33. English varieties of religious experience Liza Knapp; Part VI. Tolstoy's afterlife: 34. Tolstoy's complete works Inessa Medzhibovskaya; 35. Tolstoy in English translation Carol Apollonio; 36. Film adaptations Alexander Burry; 37. Musical adaptations Tony H. Lin; 38. Biographies Caryl Emerson; 39. Tolstoy as subject of Art: Portraits, films, novels Margarita Vaysman.

Reviews

'... this volume provides laudable contextual depth, breadth, and substance ... Recommended.' D. C. Maus, Choice

Author Information

Anna A. Berman is a lecturer in Slavonic Studies at Cambridge University and a fellow of Clare College. Her research focuses on the nineteenth-century Russian and English novel and issues of kinship and family. She is the author of Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: The Path to Universal Brotherhood (2015) and has also published articles on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Russian opera, the relationship of science and literature, and the family novel as a genre. Her monograph, The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

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