{"product_id":"tolstoy-on-war-9780801478178","title":"Tolstoy On War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy''s novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgroundsliterary criticism, history, social science, and philosophyto provide fresh readings of the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eTolstoy On War\u003c\/i\u003e focus primarily on the novel's depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTolstoy on War\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers the results of an international conference held in April 2010 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.. The audience consisted primarily of cadets who had studied the novel and who had already 'wrestled with [Tolstoi's] take on their deadly, idealistic profession' (2)..In all, the editors have done an excellent job, providing introductory and concluding comments that frame the dozen essays, while contributing their own original research.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kathleen Parthé * Slavic Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcPeak and Orwin bring together twelve essays on Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Battle of Borodino. Each chapter in some way touches on at least one the novel's most prevalent contradictions (e.g., war and peace; freedom and determinism; fiction and nonfiction), spanning the disciplines of literary criticism, history, and philosophy.... The volume has thematic consistency and a wide disciplinary appeal, bringing history and literary criticism together in a study of a classic of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Donna Tussing Orwin\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 1. Tolstoy on War, Russia, and Empire\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Dominic Lieven\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 2. The Use of Historical Sources in War and Peace\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Dan Ungurianu\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 3. Moscow in 1812: Myths and Realities\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Alexander M. Martin\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 4. The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in \"War and Peace\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Alan Forrest\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 5. Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in \"War and Peace\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Gary Saul Morson\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 6. The Great Man in \"War and Peace\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Jeff Love\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 7. \"War and Peace\" from the Military Point of View\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Donna Tussing Orwin\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 8. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Duel as a Microcosm of War\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Rick McPeak\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 9 The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy's Borodino\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Donna Tussing Orwin\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 10. Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Dialectics of War\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Andreas Herberg-Rothe\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 11. The Disobediences of War and Peace\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Elizabeth D. Samet\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 12. Tolstoy the International Relations Theorist\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby David A. Welch\u003c\/i\u003eWar and Peace at West Point\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Rick McPeak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405156852055,"sku":"9780801478178","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801478178.jpg?v=1730488921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tolstoy-on-war-9780801478178","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}