Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature
While Tolstoy is regarded as the greatest writer of global literature and his work being translated into all major languages of the world, his literary relationship with the literature in the English language is largely ignored. The paper explores the influence of the Anglophone scholars and literary figures on the formation of Tolstoy as a great pillar of literature. The paper explores the influence of English and American writers by detailing the contents of his personal library, publications and diary entries. H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Laurence Stern, Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw. His moral rectitude, his love for realism and his humanism find a close connection with the mentioned writers, and the paper details this connection. The paper establishes the position that Tolstoy was a person with the greatest creativity and imagination, he was open to the formative influence and in the process forged his original form of the influence he imbibed in his realistic writings.
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Leo Tolstoy, American Literature, British Literature, Realism, Fiction, Russian Literature
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(1) Amara Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Zainab Akram
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
(3) Irfan Ullah
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Khan, A., Akram, Z., & Ullah, I. (2019). Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature. Global Regional Review, IV(II), 536-545. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).56
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CHICAGO : Khan, Amara, Zainab Akram, and Irfan Ullah. 2019. "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature." Global Regional Review, IV (II): 536-545 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).56
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HARVARD : KHAN, A., AKRAM, Z. & ULLAH, I. 2019. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature. Global Regional Review, IV, 536-545.
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MHRA : Khan, Amara, Zainab Akram, and Irfan Ullah. 2019. "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature." Global Regional Review, IV: 536-545
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MLA : Khan, Amara, Zainab Akram, and Irfan Ullah. "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature." Global Regional Review, IV.II (2019): 536-545 Print.
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OXFORD : Khan, Amara, Akram, Zainab, and Ullah, Irfan (2019), "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature", Global Regional Review, IV (II), 536-545
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TURABIAN : Khan, Amara, Zainab Akram, and Irfan Ullah. "Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (2019): 536-545. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).56