Tolstoy's art and thought, 1847-1880 / Donna Tussing Orwin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Documentation; Introduction; PART ONE: THE 1850's; One: Analysis and Synthesis; The Hegelian Atmosphere of the 1850's; Chernyshevsky; The Contemporary Reception of Tolstoy's Work; Tolstoy and Chernyshevsky; Subjective Reality for the Early Tolstoy; Tolstoy's Goethean Realism; Two: The Young Tolstoy's Understanding of the Human Soul; Tolstoy, the Psychological Analyst; Synthesis and the Influence of Rousseau; Three: The First Synthesis: Nature and the Young Tolstoy; Tolstoy's Understanding of Nature in the Early 1850's.

A Maturing Philosophy of Nature (Tolstoy and Fet)Botkin and the Exploration of the Feelings; Sterne; N.V. Stankevich; Nature, Reason, and the Feelings (''Lucerne''); Objective and Subjective Poetry; The Metaphysics of Opposites and Goethe Again; PART TWO: THE 1860's; Four: Nature and Civilization in The Cossacks; Natural Necessity in The Cossacks; The Morality of Self-Sacrifice in the Stag's Lair; The Cossack as Savage Man; Five: The Unity of Man and Nature in War and Peace; Nature and History in War and Peace; Circular versus Faustian Reason in War and Peace.

The Morality of Nature in War and Peace The Importance of Spirit in Wartime; Reason, Morality, and Nature in the Human Soul; The Rostov's and ''Living Life''; The Bolkonsky's; Pierre; ''Lyrical Daring'' in War and Peace; PART THREE: THE 1870s; Six: From Nature to Culture in the 1870's; Schopenhauer; Schopenhauer and Arzamas; Nature after Schopenhauer; Linking Happiness and Morality in Anna Karenina; Seven: Drama in Anna Karenina; The Symposium in the Restaurant; Anna as Heroine of a Novel; Anna's Radical Individualism; To Judge or Not Judge Anna.

Eight: Science, Philosophy, and Synthesis in the 1870's The Enduring Importance of Unity for Tolstoy; Atomism; Kantian Epistemology; The Attack on the Individual; The Denigration of the ''Personality''; The Morally Free Individual in Anna Karenina; Synthesis and Lyrical Daring Once Again; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

""My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself, "" writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossack's, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral certainty unfolded, creating fundamental differences among the great novels of the ""pre-crisis"" period. Distinguish.

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