TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sethness Castro,Javier
TI  - Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography
SN  - 9781003328964
PY  - 2023///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History of other lands
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Social & political philosophy
KW  - ethics, gender, LGBTQ+, political history, queer studies, Russian history, sexology, theology
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Queer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychanalysis, political history, LOGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.  Using a psychobiographical framework, Sethness Castro uncovers profoundly queer dimensions in Tolstoy's life experiences and art. Deftly contributing to the progressive and radical analysis of gender and sexuality, this book examines how Tolstoy's erotic dissidence informed his anarchist politics, anti-militarist ideas, and voluminous literary production. Sethness Castro analyzes the influence of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Cervantes, Rousseau, Kant, Herzen, Proudhon, Chemyshevsky, and his mother Marya Volkonskyaya on the artist's writings. Furthermore, he details Tolstoy's emblematic linking of LGBTQ+ desire with moral and erotic self-determination and resistance to Tsarist despotism-especially in War and Peace.  This book is vital reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and Russian history
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61597
ER  -