Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index
Contents:
On War and peace / Brett Cooke Tolstoy's biography and autogenealogy / Brett Cooke On the meaning of serfdom / Anna Hruska Tolstoy's dialogue with his readers / Brett Cooke Human nature in Tolstoy's epic / Brett Cooke Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Napoleon / Janet Tucker Foreign influences and domestic concerns / Sara Stefani Benevolence on the battlefield / Rick McPeak The poetic nature of War and peace / Olga Vladimirovna Slivitskaya The Russian Homer? Food, eating, and scenes of dining in War and peace / Ronald D. LeBlanc Tolstoy's connections vs. separation paradigm / Kevin O'Brien Pierre and familyhood / Anna A. Berman Orthodox spirituality and women's virtue / Elizabeth Blake Gambling with a constant heart : Sonya's inevitable loss / Donna Oliver Trembling Napoleon and fat Kutuzov : bodies, historical figures, and historical determinism in War and peace / Ani Kokobobo The philosophy of history / Jeff Love
