Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God

Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), The Gospels In Brief (1881), “The Death of Ivan Ilych” (1886), “The Kreutzer Sonata,” (1889), “Master and Man” (1895), and Resurrection (1899), among other classics. However, the argument does not overl