"Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal" explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist about the use of psychoanalysis in Russia. It shows how the sexual theories of creativity /sublimation of Solovyov and Rozanov led to the concepts of Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev.

Anna Lisa Crone was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. Her first monograph, published in 1978, was an innovative literary study of the Russian philosopher Vasily Rozanov. Entitled Rozanov and the End of Literature: Polyphony and the Dissolution of Genre in Solitaria and Fallen Leaves, it opened a new chapter in the study of Russian philosophical discourse.
In 2001 she published The Daring of Derzavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia. In 2004, together with Jennifer Day, she published My Petersburg/Myself: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern Russian Literature. Her final years were devoted to the present monograph on the philosophies of eros in Russian modernism.