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Tolstoy and the genesis of "War and Peace"

Author: Kathryn B Feuer; Robin Feuer Miller; Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Kathryn B. Feuer offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, and illuminates its connection to earlier, unpublished novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. Additionally, Feuer locates Tolstoy within the intellectual debates of his time.
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Named Person: Leo Tolstoy, graf; Leo Tolstoy, graf
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathryn B Feuer; Robin Feuer Miller; Donna Tussing Orwin
ISBN: 0801419026 9780801419027
OCLC Number: 34932783
Description: xiv, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Tolstoy's Early Works: The Literary Matrix of War and Peace --
2. Predecessors of War and Peace: "The Distant Field" and The Decembrists --
3. The Novel of 1812 --
4. The Transition to 1805 --
5. The Opening Pages of War and Peace --
6. The Transition from the Early Manuscripts to Book I, Part 1 --
7. Tolstoy's Rejection of the Spirit of 1856 --
8. Napoleonism, Decembrism, and the Spirit of 1856 --
9. Ideological Influences on the Genesis of War and Peace --
10. Napoleon as a Symbol of Revolution in the Political Conception of War and Peace --
Other Works by Kathryn B. Feuer.
Responsibility: Kathryn B. Feuer ; edited by Robin Feuer Miller and Donna Tussing Orwin.
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Kathryn B. Feuer offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, and illuminates its connection to earlier, unpublished novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. Additionally, Feuer locates Tolstoy within the intellectual debates of his time.

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