The Cambridge companion to Tolstoy / edited by Donna Tussing Orwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947-edt, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Tolstoy, Leo.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : Tolstoy as artist and public figure / Donna Tussing Orwin

War and peace / Gary Saul Morson

Anna Karenina / Barbara Lönnqvist

Resurrection / Hugh McLean

Tolstoy as a writer of popular literature / Gary R. Jahn

The long short story in Tolstoy's fiction / Richard Freeborn

Tolstoy staged in Paris, Berlin and London / W. Gareth Jones

The development style and theme in Tolstoy / Liza Knapp

History and autobiography in Tolstoy / Andrew Wachtel

Women, sexuality, and the family in Tolstoy / Edwina Cruise

Tolstoy in the twentieth century / George R. Clay

Courage in Tolstoy / Donna Tussing Orwin

Tolstoy's aesthetics / Caryl Emerson.

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ISBN:

9780511999840 (ebook)

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