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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism / edited by Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- English literature--Russian influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Against Influence: On Writing about Russian Culture in Britain; 1. 'For God, for Czar, for Fatherland': Russians on the British Stage from Napoleon to the Great War; 2. 'Nihilists of Castlebar!': Exporting Russian Nihilism in the 1880s and the case of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or the Nihilists; 3. Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement, 1890-1910; 4. 'For the Cause of Education': A History of the Free Russian Library in Whitechapel, 1898-1917
- 5. 'Formless', 'Pretentious', 'Hideous and Revolting': Non-Chekhov Russian and Soviet Drama on the British Stage6. Tsar's Hall: Russian Music in London, 1895-1926; 7. Le Sacre du printemps in London: The Politics of Embodied Freedom in Early Modernist Dance and Suffragette Protest; 8. Russian Aesthetics in Britain: Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm; 9. Reading Russian: Russian Studies and the Literary Canon; 10. The Translation of Soviet Literature: John Rodker and PresLit; 11. Russia and the British Intellectuals: The Significance of The Stalin-Wells Talk
- 12. The Tempo of Revolution: British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema in the 1920s13. Soviet Films and British Intelligence in the 1930s: The Case of Kino Films and MI5; Afterword: A Time and a Place for Everything: On Russia, Britain, and Being Modern; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-966086-7
- 0-19-163663-0
- OCLC:
- 921055506
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