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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940

By Rebecca Beasley

Russia in Britain, 1880-1940

By Rebecca Beasley

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Russia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture, tracing its transformative effect on British intellectual life from the 188s, the decade which saw the first sustained interest in Russian literature, to 194, the eve of the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War. By focusing on the role played by institutions, disciplines and groups, libraries, periodicals,government agencies, concert halls, publishing houses, theatres, and film societies, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to highlight the role of a small number of individuals, notably Sergei Diaghilev, Constance Garnett, TheodoreKomisarjevsky, Katherine Mansfield, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf. Drawing on recent research and newly available archives, Russia in Britain shifts attention from individual figures to the networks within which they operated, and uncovers the variety of forces that enabled and structured the British engagement with Russian culture. The resulting narrative maps an intricate pattern of interdisciplinary relations and provides the foundational research for a new understanding ofAnglo-Russian/Soviet interaction. In this, it makes a major contribution to the current debates about transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and 'global modernisms' that are reshaping our knowledge of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British culture.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
326
Release Date:
2013-12-01
Publication Date:
2016-06-30
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199660867
ISBN13:
9780199660865
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
655 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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