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Tolstoy in context / edited by Anna A. Berman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Political and social views.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Influence.
- Authors, Russian--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, Russian.
- Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917.
- Russia.
- Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 357 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The life / Andrei Zorin
- The death / William Nickell
- Tolstoy's family / Rosamund Bartlett
- Estate culture and Yasnaya Polyana / Hilde Hoogenboom
- Peasants and folklore / Sibelan Forrester
- Emancipation and the great reforms / Anne Hruska
- Nobility and the Russian class system / Bella Grigoryan
- The Russian Orthodox Church / Francesca Silano
- Law / Tatiana Borisova
- Politics / G.M. Hamburg
- War and the military / Donna Tussing Orwin
- Tolstoyans / Charlotte Alston
- Clothing / Daniel Green
- The woman question / Anne Lounsbery
- The family / Anna A. Berman
- Tolstoy's oeuvre / Chlo e Kitzinger
- Peasant schools and education / Daniel Moulin-Sto zek
- Russian philosophy / Randall A. Poole
- The Russian literary scene / Ilya Vinitsky
- European literature / Priscilla Meyer and Melissa Frazier
- European philosophy / Jeff Love
- Theater / Caryl Emerson
- Music / Emily Frey
- The visual arts / Maria Taroutina
- The mechanized world / Julia Vaingurt
- The natural world / Thomas Newlin
- Darwin and natural science / Michael D. Gordin
- Medical science / Elena Fratto
- Pacifism and the Doukhobors / Veronika Makarova
- America / Galina Alekseeva
- India / Suvij Sudershan
- Eastern religion / Jeff Love
- English varieties of religious experience / Liza Knapp
- Tolstoy's complete works / Inessa Medzhibovskaya
- Tolstoy in English translation / Carol Apollonio
- Film adaptations / Alexander Burry
- Musical adaptations / Tony H. Lin
- Biographies / Caryl Emerson
- Tolstoy as subject of art : portraits, films, novels / Margarita Vaysman.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108786386
- 1108786383
- 9781108804103
- 1108804101
- 9781108782876
- 1108782876
- OCLC:
- 1295618156
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