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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Great Britain. |
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English literature -- Russian influences.
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English literature -- Russian influences. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Beasley, Rebecca, 1971-
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Bullock, Philip Ross.
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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) |
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0191636630 (electronic book) |
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9780191757761 |
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0191757764 |
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9780199660865 |
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0199660867 (hardback) |
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