Main description:

1. This book is the first to frame Tolstoy's life and work through a queer, psychoanalytical and historico-political lens
2. It uniquely blends literary theory, queer/gender studies, sexology and ethics
3. Using illustrations throughout, this book also draws on the work of Freud, Cervantes, Rousseau and Kant.

Contents:

1. Theoretical Preface on Queer Anarchism 2. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy: A Queer, Christian-Anarchist Writer 3. The Life and Death of a "Holy Fool" 4. Humanism, Militarism, and Imperialism in The Cossacks and Hadji Murat 5. War and Peace: An Anarcho-Populist Verbal Icon 6. War and Peace, Book One: "Andrei Bolkonsky" 7. War and Peace, Book Two: "Natasha Rostova" 8. War and Peace, Book Three: "The Year 1812" 9. War and Peace, Book Four: "Pierre Bezukhov" 10. Conclusion: The Psychodynamics of Hierarchy