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Title Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism / edited by Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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 -- Translation of Soviet literature : John Rodker and PresLit / Ian Patterson -- Russia and the British intellectuals : the significance of The Stalin-Wells talk / Matthew Taunton -- 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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Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
English literature -- Russian influences.
English literature -- Russian influences.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Beasley, Rebecca, 1971-
Bullock, Philip Ross.
Other Form: Reproduction of (manifestation): Russia in Britain, 1880-1940. 1st ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199660865 (DLC) 2013941139 (OCoLC)853495528
ISBN 9780191636639 (electronic book)
0191636630 (electronic book)
9780191757761
0191757764
9780199660865
0199660867 (hardback)