Thomas Newlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1169489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Newlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Newlin |
| SIGNATURE | NEWLIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peasant Dreams, Peasant Nightmares
A nobleman who proudly traced his lineage back to Riurik, Leo Tolstoy spent the greater part of his adult life dressing as a peasant. This essay asks why he did this, and explores how he used cross‐dressing in both his daily life and his fiction to destabilize easy categorizations and challenge assumptions about identity. After surveying some of the many reactions, positive and negative, to Tolstoy as a “peasant” from a variety of quarters, the e…
The Thermodynamics of Desire in Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter
Critics have long recognized that Ivan's Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter ( Zapiski okhotnika ) is only nominally a work about hunting, and that it is concerned, at a deeper level, with much more important issues (serfdom, narrative form, and so on). This essay argues that Turgenev's cycle of stories is indeed about okhota , but not just in the traditional sense of the word: it is centrally (though not exclusively) a book about desire . Turgenev is f…
"Swarm Life" and the Biology of War and Peace
In the spring of 1863, Lev Tolstoi, newly married and soon to be a father, began to conceive of the work that would eventually become War And Peace. That same spring he also took up beekeeping. While in practical terms his "bee passion" proved relatively short-lived, it was an exceptionally intense engagement with a miniaturized and uniquely observable biological and social universe. In this article, Thomas Newlin explores how Tolstoi's dual enme…
The Voice in the Garden
Using Russia's most prolific writer, Andrei Bolotov, as a focal point, this text offers an analysis of the pastoral impulse in 18th- and early 19th-century Russian culture. The study also focuses on the tensions that undercut and qualified this experiment in idyllicism
Literature, Lives, and Legality in Catherine's Russia
Rural Ruses
Among the scores of unpublished manuscripts in fond 89 ("Bolotovykh") of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg is a partially filled album spanning a forty-year period from the early 1780s to the early 1820s. One of the many long-term projects of the multitalented memoirist, landscape designer, and agronomist Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov (1738-1833), the album was initiated at Bogoroditsk, the crown estate where he worked as bailiff from 1…
The Slave Soul of Russia
The Return of the Russian Odysseus
HaKoHeIu H3 KeHmrc6epra Homeward bound from Konigsberg 51 npH6JIH3HJ14C K CTpaHe I approached at last that land e He Je nioT ryTTeH6epra Where they don't approve of Guttenberg H HaxoaIrT BKyc B roBHe, And find that shit's quite grand; BbinwJI pyccKoro HacTOIO, I had a swig of Russian swill, YcJIbixaJI >, I heard a fuck your Mum, H1 nomji4 nepeloo MHOK) And Russian mugs, off at full tilt, PoKHI pyccKHe n4caTb. Slouched by me one by one
Russkaia memuaristika XVIII-Pervoi poloviny XIX v. Ot rukopisi k knige
The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia
The Return of the Russian Odysseus
HaKoHeIu H3 KeHmrc6epra Homeward bound from Konigsberg 51 npH6JIH3HJ14C K CTpaHe I approached at last that land e He Je nioT ryTTeH6epra Where they don't approve of Guttenberg H HaxoaIrT BKyc B roBHe, And find that shit's quite grand; BbinwJI pyccKoro HacTOIO, I had a swig of Russian swill, YcJIbixaJI >, I heard a fuck your Mum, H1 nomji4 nepeloo MHOK) And Russian mugs, off at full tilt, PoKHI pyccKHe n4caTb. Slouched by me one by one
The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Russkaia memuaristika XVIII-Pervoi poloviny XIX v. Ot rukopisi k knige
The Return of the Russian Odysseus
HaKoHeIu H3 KeHmrc6epra Homeward bound from Konigsberg 51 npH6JIH3HJ14C K CTpaHe I approached at last that land e He Je nioT ryTTeH6epra Where they don't approve of Guttenberg H HaxoaIrT BKyc B roBHe, And find that shit's quite grand; BbinwJI pyccKoro HacTOIO, I had a swig of Russian swill, YcJIbixaJI >, I heard a fuck your Mum, H1 nomji4 nepeloo MHOK) And Russian mugs, off at full tilt, PoKHI pyccKHe n4caTb. Slouched by me one by one
The Slave Soul of Russia
Literature, Lives, and Legality in Catherine's Russia
Rural Ruses
Among the scores of unpublished manuscripts in fond 89 ("Bolotovykh") of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg is a partially filled album spanning a forty-year period from the early 1780s to the early 1820s. One of the many long-term projects of the multitalented memoirist, landscape designer, and agronomist Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov (1738-1833), the album was initiated at Bogoroditsk, the crown estate where he worked as bailiff from 1…
The Voice in the Garden
Using Russia's most prolific writer, Andrei Bolotov, as a focal point, this text offers an analysis of the pastoral impulse in 18th- and early 19th-century Russian culture. The study also focuses on the tensions that undercut and qualified this experiment in idyllicism
"Swarm Life" and the Biology of War and Peace
In the spring of 1863, Lev Tolstoi, newly married and soon to be a father, began to conceive of the work that would eventually become War And Peace. That same spring he also took up beekeeping. While in practical terms his "bee passion" proved relatively short-lived, it was an exceptionally intense engagement with a miniaturized and uniquely observable biological and social universe. In this article, Thomas Newlin explores how Tolstoi's dual enme…
The Thermodynamics of Desire in Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter
Critics have long recognized that Ivan's Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter ( Zapiski okhotnika ) is only nominally a work about hunting, and that it is concerned, at a deeper level, with much more important issues (serfdom, narrative form, and so on). This essay argues that Turgenev's cycle of stories is indeed about okhota , but not just in the traditional sense of the word: it is centrally (though not exclusively) a book about desire . Turgenev is f…
Peasant Dreams, Peasant Nightmares
A nobleman who proudly traced his lineage back to Riurik, Leo Tolstoy spent the greater part of his adult life dressing as a peasant. This essay asks why he did this, and explores how he used cross‐dressing in both his daily life and his fiction to destabilize easy categorizations and challenge assumptions about identity. After surveying some of the many reactions, positive and negative, to Tolstoy as a “peasant” from a variety of quarters, the e…
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