Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism /

This title explores the extent of British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture from the 1880s up to the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beasley, Rebecca, Bullock, Philip Ross
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
English literature > Russian influences.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : against influence : on writing about Russian culture in Britain / Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock
  • "For God, for Czar, for fatherland" : Russians on the British stage from Napoleon to the Great War / Laurence Senelick
  • "Nihilists of Castlebar!" : exporting Russian nihilism in the 1880s and the case of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or the nihilists / Michael Newton
  • Britain and the international Tolstoyan movement, 1890-1910 / Charlotte Alston
  • "For the cause of education" : a history of the Free Russian Library in Whitechapel, 1898-1917 / Robert Henderson
  • "Formless", "pretentious", "hideous and revolting" : non-Chekhov Russian and Soviet drama on the British stage / Stuart Young
  • Tsar's hall : Russian music in London, 1895-1926 / Philip Ross Bullock
  • Le Sacre du printemps in London : the politics of embodied freedom in early modernist dance and suffragette protest / Ramsay Burt
  • Russian aesthetics in Britain : Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm / Caroline Maclean
  • Reading Russian : Russian studies and the literary canon / Rebecca Beasley
  • The translation of Soviet literature : John Rodker and PresLit / Ian Patterson
  • Russia and the British intellectuals : the significance of The Stalin-Wells talk / Matthew Taunton
  • The tempo of revolution : British film culture and Soviet cinema in the 1920s / Laura Marcus
  • Soviet films and British intelligence in the 1930s : the case of Kino Films and MI5 / James Smith
  • Afterword : a time and a place for everything : on Russia, Britain, and being modern / Ken Hirschkop.

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