About this volume / Rachel Slauffer -- On Tolstoy / Rachel Stauffer -- Biography of the author / Rachel Stauffer -- Critical contexts. "Not a work of art, but a piece of life" : history and realism in the time of Tolstoy / Kathleen Conti ; Topics and trends in Tolstoy studies / Joseph Schlegel ; The great brain's brawn : Tolstoy at the Gym / J. Alexander Ogden ; Anna Karenina, Rousseau, and the Gospels / Priscilla Meyer -- Critical readings. Tolstoy in the Caucasus : noble savages and imperialist identities / Orel Beilinson ; Reading beyond Russia : J. M. Coetzee's interpretations and adaptations of Detstvo, Otrochestvo, and Yunost / Jill Martiniuk ; War and peace : its reception in nineteenth-century America / Robert C. Evans ; Anna Karenina : its reception in nineteenth-century America / Robert C. Evans ; Similar to a feverish delirium : the fantastic worlds of battle as Tolstoy's criticism of war in War and peace / Natalya Sukhonos ; Resurrection as desexualization : the new ethical hero in Tolstoy / Natalia Dame ; Estranged and degraded worlds : the grotesque aesthetics of Tolstoy's Resurrection / Ani Kokobobo ; From Christ to Krishna : Tolstoy and eastern philosophies / Marina Alexandrova ; The path of life : a guidebook to Tolstoy's philosophical source material and the mysticism of his latter years / Mark E. Hopkins ; Tolstoy's narrative technique : listing people, objects, and events / Zdravko Solak -- Resources. Chronology ; Major works.