Knapp explores how Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), responding to other texts, used the content and especially the multi-plot form of Anna Karenina to ask how lives connect, whether
loving one’s neighbor can ever be done, or whether--as Anna sees it in her most desperate moment--people are only thrown into the world to hate each other. She covers the estates of Pokrovskoe
and Vozdvizhenskoe: Tolstoy’s labyrinth of linkages in Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina and The Scarlet Letter: Anna on the scaffold of the pillory and Levin with his own red stigma, loving your
neighbor in Middlemarch and Anna Karenina: varieties of multi-plot novels, loving your neighbor and saving your soul: Anna Karenina and English varieties of religious experience, the eternal
silence of infinite spaces: Pascal and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy on double plot and the misery of our neighbors: for whom the bell tolls in Mrs. Dalloway and
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