ABOUT THIS BOOK

Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding Tolstoy's construction of his novel Anna Karenina and how he creates patterns of meaning. Her analysis draws on works that were critical to his understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives, including The Scarlet Letter, Middlemarch, and Blaise Pascal's Pensées. Knapp concludes with a tour-de-force reading of Mrs. Dalloway as Virginia Woolf's response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Liza Knapp is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. She is the author of The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics, the editor of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot": A Critical Companion, and the coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."

REVIEWS

"An invaluable contribution to Tolstoy studies and the theory of the novel." —Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Bryn Mawr College

"Knapp's keen eye for prodding out books that play off one another illuminates not only the multiplot novel in its various guises, but the adultery novel as Tolstoy reinvented it, where sexual transgression is forced to serve the quest for God and faith. A mind-expanding book." —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Estates of Pokrovskoe and Vozdvizhenskoe: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Linkages in Anna Karenina

2 Anna Karenina and The Scarlet Letter: Anna on the Scaffold of the Pillory and Levin with His Own Red Stigma

3 Loving Your Neighbor in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina: Varieties of Multiplot Novels

4 Loving Your Neighbor, Saving Your Soul: Anna Karenina and English Varieties of Religious Experience

5 The Eternal Silence of Infinite Spaces: Pascal and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

6 Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy on Distant Suffering and Double Plot: For Whom the Bell Tolls in Mrs. Dalloway and Anna Karenina

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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