Later during that discussion of Tolstoy, Dorothy Day concentrated her attention on Anna Karenina: “I hear people say it is their favorite novel, but I can’t say that, because I get too upset whenever I go back to it, and I do, from time to time. We choose whom to read in accordance with the particular subjectivity which happens to possess us at one or another moment – unless some professor is compelling us to cram a whole list of books down our nervous gullets. She was not thereby making empty talk nor was she unaware of the relationship a novelist can have to one’s psychology.

“I have to be in a certain mood to read Tolstoy,” I remember her saying (1970). Like others before and after her, she struggled with Tolstoy, even as he never stopped struggling with himself – the various sides of his intellectual and ethical life which he wanted so hard to reconcile. She, of course, had read (and reread) War and Peace, Anna Karenina, not to mention the later Tolstoy of religious introspection and intense personal anguish (Resurrection, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Confession). His moral passion was evident even in his early writing (as an observer of war in The Sebastopol Sketches, as an observer of himself and others nearby, in the partly fictional, partly autobiographical Childhood, Boyhood, Youth). Note that when a source lacks an author and is therefore listed by title, it is alphabetised according to the first word of the title, as with Napoleonic Wars.It is not hard to understand why Dorothy Day was so taken with Tolstoy. In Word, you can find this option in the ‘paragraph’ settings. by Juliette Atkinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)īibliographies should have a hanging indent – this means that the second and subsequent lines of each entry are indented to make it clear at a glance where it ends and the next entry begins. by Juliette Atkinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), p. There is no full stop at the end of a bibliography entry.ġ.Specific page numbers are not required, because you’re now referencing the whole source rather than citing a specific passage.For alphabetisation purposes, author names are inverted so that the last name comes first (e.g.The information here is presented similarly to that in the footnotes, with the following differences: The bibliography lists all your sources in alphabetical order by authors’ last names. Creating an MHRA bibliographyĪt the end of your text, you include a bibliography with information on every source you cited.

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