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From orientalism to cultural capital : the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1920s /

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Soboleva, Olga, 1959- (Autor), Wrenn, Angus James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • H.G. Wells: interpreting the 'writing on the eastern wall of Europe'
  • J.M. Barrie and The truth about the Russian dancers
  • D.H. Lawrence: 'Russia will certainly inherit the future'
  • 'Lappin and Lapinova': Woolf's beleaguered Russian monarchs
  • 'Not a story of detection, of crime and punishment, but of sin and expiation': T.S. Eliot's debt to Russia, Dostoevsky and Turgenev.