H.G. Wells and all things Russian / edited by Galya Diment.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diment, Galya, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Knowledge and learning--Russia (Federation).

Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Russian literature--English influences.

Russian literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Russia (Federation).

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Influence.

English literature--Russian influences.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: "The Wells effect" / Galya Diment

Wells in Russia pre WWII

Yevgeny Zamyatin and the Wellsian utopia / Maxim Shadurski

Time machines and metamorphoses: H.G. Wells's Influence on Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky / Muireann Maguire

"The Wellsian twist in Nabokov's "Terra Incognita" / Zoran Kuzmanovich

Post WWII

"Unregenerate mass nature" in H. G. Wells and the Brothers Strugatsky / Richard Boyechko

Culturology: Yuly Kagarlitsky's Life of Wells / Patrick Parrinder

"Come and visit us in ten year time!": Representation of H. G. Wells on the Russian Stage and Screen / Olga Sobolev and Angus Wrenn

Russia in Wells

Russia and H. G. Wells's Babes in the Darkling Wood / David Rampton

Wells and Gorky / Ira Nadel

Odette Keun Versus H. G. Wells on Russia / Galya Diment

Appendix. Translations: V. D. Nabokov on Visiting Wells in England in 1916 / (trans. Galya Diment)

Alexander Amfiteatrov on Wells's visit to Russia in 1920 / (trans. Veronica Muskheli)

Alexander Belyaev on the Wells-Lenin debate about "utopias" / (trans. Galya Diment)

Karl Radek and Solomon Lozovsky to Stalin / (trans. Galya Diment)

Yury Olesha on his love for Wells / (trans. Galya Diment)

Yuly Kagarlitsky on being a Soviet biographer of Wells / (trans. Veronica Muskheli).

Notes:

Work consists of both items originally published in English and other items newly translated to English from the original Russian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781783089925

178308992X

Publisher Number:

40029342580

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