Virginia Woolf's portraits of Russian writers : creating the literary other / by Darya Protopopova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Protopopova, Darya, 1982- author.

Cambridge Scholars Publisher

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia,-1882-1941-Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf's vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy's suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly 'modern' writer. The book also examines British modernists' fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry's articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf's essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Note on the Text

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2782-4

OCLC:

1183030616