Tolstoi: Art and Influence

Robert Reid is an Honorary Fellow of Keele University and formerly Reader in Russian. He has published widely on Russian literature. His most recent publication is Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World, edited with Joe Andrew (Brill, 2021).Educated at Oxford, Joe Andrew is Professor Emeritus of Keele University where he taught Film and Russian literature. He has published over 25 books, most recently Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World, edited with Robert Reid (Brill, 2021).

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsTolstoi’s Continuum of InfluencesRobert Reid1 Does the Translation Matter?Carol Apollonio2 Feeling and Contradiction in Tolstoi’s What Is Art?Richard Peace3 Tolstoi in the Work of TolstoiWillem G. Weststeijn4 Dostoevskii’s Zosima and Tolstoi’s Father Sergius: Literary Representations of StarchestvoNel Grillaert5 Tolstoi and Lidiia Veselitskaia’s Mimi at the Spa: The Fin de Siècle Tourist AdulteressSusan Layton6 Legitimate and Illegitimate Children: Rozanov’s ‘Indecent Proposal’ to TolstoiHenrietta Mondry7 Tolstoi’s Resurrection on the Russian StageOlga Sobolev8 The Dreamer and the Destroyer: Two Unconventional Tolstoians and Their Impact in AustraliaElena Govor and Kevin Windle9 Reconfiguring the Empire through Performance: Petr Fomenko’s 2001 Production of Tolstoi’s War and PeaceAlexandra Smith10 Bridging Cultures? John McGahern’s The Power of DarknessCynthia Marsh11 Elizabeth Gaskell, Tolstoi and DostoevskiiKatherine Jane BriggsIndex