Tolstoy On War : : Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" / / ed. by Donna Tussing Orwin, Rick McPeak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Forrest, Alan,; Herberg-Rothe, Andreas,; Lieven, Dominic,; Love, Jeff,; Martin, Alexander M.,; McPeak, Rick,; Morson, Gary Saul,; Orwin, Donna Tussing,; Samet, Elizabeth D.,; Ungurianu, Dan,; Welch, David A.,
• HerausgeberIn: McPeak, Rick,; Orwin, Donna Tussing,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 17 halftones

In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and port...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note to the Reader
• Introduction
• 1. Tolstoy on War, Russia, and Empire
• 2. The Use of Historical Sources in War and Peace
• 3. Moscow in 1812: Myths and Realities
• 4. The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in War and Peace
• 5. Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in War and Peace
• 6. The Great Man in War and Peace
• 7. War and Peace from the Military Point of View
• 8. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Duel as a Microcosm of War
• 9. The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy’s Borodino
• 10. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Dialectics of War
• 11. The Disobediences of War and Peace
• 12. Tolstoy the International Relations Theorist
• War and Peace at West Point
• Notes
• Works Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index