John Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.

• Introduction: Transnational Tolstoy and the New ComparatismPart One: Facing West1. "Occidentalism" in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Culture Shock on European Visits2. Vengeance is Mine: Anna Karenina and Stendhal's Italy3. Napoleonic Anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education4. From Worldliness to World Literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and ProustPart Two: Outside the Soviet Canon5. Realism as Imagism: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Modernist Fiction6. Toxic Nationalism: From Tolstoy and Stendhal to Malraux and Lampedusa7. Felt History: From Anna Karenina to Magical RealismPart Three: Into the World8. What is Art?, Hadji Murad, and World Literature9. Dialogues with Tolstoy: Premchand and Mahfouz10. "Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy": Who Owns War and Peace?11. Postcoloniality and Islamic Identity in Hadji MuradConclusion: Between the West and the WorldBibliographyIndex

Transnational Tolstoy is a welcome and groundbreaking addition to Tolstoy studies, and to the transnational reading of Russian literature generally … In this rewarding volume, John Burt Foster has updated and extended the exhausted genres of ‘Tolstoy and the West’ and ‘Tolstoy and World Literature.’ … Transnational Tolstoy provokes consideration … and plays an exemplary role in opening Tolstoy’s complex position ‘between the west and the world’ to new and productive approaches.