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War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

Date: Thursday 19 November
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls College, Hovenden Room 

This reading group explores the writing of history in the historical novel. In Michaelmas and Hilary Term will be exploring Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace (1869). 

To join our mailing list, please contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk 

Session 6: The St Petersburg Court

  • Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume II, Part 3

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    Optional reading: Madame de Stael, Ten Years in Exile, or Memoirs, pp. 340-357, pp. 361-377 (PDF in this folder)

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      More optional, for those who have already read Volume 4: Julie Mitchell, “Natasha and Hélène,” in The Novel, Volume 2 (Princeton University Press, 2022, link): 534–40. 

 

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Professor Blair Worden

Emeritus Fellow
Worcester College

Professor Bob Harris

Professor of British History
caroline warman

Professor Caroline Warman

Professor of French Literature and Thought
david dwan

Professor David Dwan

Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History
davidleopold

Professor David Leopold

Associate Professor of Political Theory
Professor David Priestland

Professor David Priestland

Professor of Modern History
eduardo posada carbo

Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó

Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America
Professor Filippo de Vivo

Professor Filippo de Vivo

Professor of Early Modern History
Professor Giuseppe Marcocci

Professor Giuseppe Marcocci

Professor of Early Modern Global History
Professor Howard Hotson

Professor Howard Hotson

Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History
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Professor Ian Maclean

Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies
Professor Ian McBride

Professor Ian McBride

Foster Professor of Irish History