Author: Feuer, Kathryn B.
Title: Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiv,295 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Prehistory & Early Beginnings: Tolstoy's Early Works: The Literary Matrix of 'War and Peace'; Predecessors of 'War and Peace': "The Distant Field" and 'The Decembrists'; The Novel of 1812; The Transition to 1805; The Opening Pages of 'War and Peace'; The Transition from the Early Manuscripts to Book I, Part 1; The Political Conception of 'War and Peace':Tolstoy's Rejection of the Spirit of 1856; Napoleonism, Decembrism, and the Spirit of 1856; Ideological Influences on the Genesis of 'War and Peace'; Napoleon as a Symbol of Revolution in the Political Conception of 'War and Peace'; Conclusion.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Russian Literature, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, , , , ,