Tolstoi & Thoreau

[June Farris]

Dear Professor Katz,

To get your student started:

Catlin, George. "Individuals and Anarchists: Count Leo Tolstoy."  In: The Story of Political Philosophers. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1939, pp. 422-25. (parallels between Tolstoy & Thoreau)

Krzyzynowski, Jerzy R. "Thoreau in Russia."  In: Thoreau Abroad: Twelve Bibliographical Essays. Hamden, Ct: Shoe String Press, 1971, pp. 133-40.[Tostoy's positive reaction to "On Civil Disobedience")

Manning, Clarence: "Thoreau and Tolstoy."  In: New England Quarterly 16, 2 (1943): 234-43.

Pokrovsky, Nikita. "Thoreau's Walden in the Global Community." In: Concord Saunterer 12-13 (2004-2005): 51-55.  (about Tolstoi & Thoreau)

Pyarelal, Nair. Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi. New Delhi: Oxford, 1958. 20-.

Schwartzman, Jack. "Thoreau: Tolstoy and Civil Disobedience."  In: Thoreau's World and Ours: A Natural Legacy. Edited by E. A. Schofield and R. C. Baron. Golden, CO: North American, 1993, pp. 18-34.

In addition, if your student does a WorldCat keyword search using the terms Thoreau and Tolsto* and then limits by language (English), he/she will get 83 matches of books in English which have essays on Tolstoi and Thoreau.  Most will not discuss both together, but some might--I didn't have the time to go through all 83 entries.  Note that I used Tolsto* to account for spelling variants in English (Tolstoy and Tolstoi).

Hope this helps.
June Farris


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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Katz, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:13 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] query

Dear colleagues:

A happy new year to all.

A student of mine (who does not read Russian) has asked me to post the following inquiry:

"How did American Transcendental philosophy (especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) influence the writings of Leo Tolstoy?
I want to understand what gave birth to American Transcendentalism and how those ideas were adopted and modified by Tolstoy."

Please forward any suggestions to me.

Thanks very much.

Michael Katz
Middlebury College
mkatz at middlebury.edu

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