Tolstoi: Art and Influence

Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels (War and Peace and Resurrection), communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitsakaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day.

Contributors: Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle.

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).