Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2013) |
Subject |
English literature -- Russian influences.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Russian literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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English literature
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English literature -- Russian influences
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Modernism (Literature)
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Russian literature -- Appreciation
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Beasley, Rebecca, 1971- editor.
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Bullock, Philip Ross, editor
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ISBN |
9780191757761 |
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0191757764 |
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