Tolstoy and the Genesis of "War and Peace" - Softcover

Feuer, Kathryn B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801474477 ISBN 13: 9780801474477

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, illuminating its connection to earlier, unpublished, novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. A novelist herself, Feuer explores the problems of character development, narrative voice, genre, and structure that Tolstoy ultimately resolved so brilliantly.

About this title

About the Author

The late Kathryn B. Feuer taught at the University of Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Virginia. Robin Feuer Miller is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author most recently of Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey. Donna Tussing Orwin is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author most recently of Consequences of Consciousness.

From the Back Cover

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 She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, and illuminates its connection to earlier, unpublished novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian.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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801474477
• ISBN 13: 9780801474477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Miller Robin Feuer, Orwin Donna Tussing