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The Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and seeks deeper reconciliation. This collection presents him as an open-ended conversation partner rather than a moral authority, grappling urgently with dilemmas of identity, human relationships, colonial violence, and integrity. The Tolstoy I have always sought—and hope is foregrounded here—is one whose meanings remain open, engaging in dialogue with both our present and an unknown future. From his time, he speaks to today's most pressing issues. In an era of polarization and simplistic narratives, Tolstoy offers a methodology of dissent and independent thought. This is Tolstoy the dissenter, whose voice is extraordinarily valuable for our time.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Dissent.
I. The Subject, Physicality, and Mobility in Space
1)Trembling Napoleon and Fat Kutuzov: Bodies, Historical Figures, and Historical Determinism in War and Peace
2)Society, Mobility, and the Construction of Gender in Early Tolstoy
3)Using Digital Technologies to Uncover the Geographical Dimension of Tolstoy's War and Peace
II. Coming to Terms with Sexuality and Identity
4)The Young Tolstoy Struggles to Integrate Desire into Art
5)Strange Bedfellows: Leo Tolstoy and Andrea Dworkin
6)Sexual Citizenship and the Legacy of the Novel of Adultery in a Twenty-First-Century Adaptation of Anna Karenina
III. Religious Heresies
7)Authoring Christ: Novelistic Echoes in Tolstoy's Harmonization and Translation of the Four Gospels
8)The Self as Animal or Corpse: The Grotesque Subject in Tolstoy's Late Theology and Fiction and in Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin
9)Can Tolstoy Mourn?
IV. Defying Empire in Hadji Murat
10)Tolstoy's Enigmatic Final Hero: Holy War, Sufism, and the Spiritual Path in Hadji Murat
11)"Why Does Russia Need Hadji Murat's Head?" Hadji Murat Dagestani Identity, and Russia's Colonial Exploits
Conclusion: Tolstoy Today
