Author: Rebecca Beasley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198802129
Size: 66.91 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores the thick history of that moment, by analyzing networks of dissemination and reception to recover the role of neglected as well as canonical figures, and institutions as well as individuals. The dominant account of British modernism privileges a Francophile genealogy, but the turn-of-the century debate about the future of British writing was a triangular debate, a debate not only between French and English models, but between French, English, and Russian models. Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with an uncritical immersion in 'life' at the expense of a mastery of style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model for British writing. This supposed danger was closely bound up with the politics of the period, and this book investigates how Russian culture was deployed in the close relationships between writers, editors, and politicians who made up the early twentieth-century intellectual class--the British intelligentsia. Russomania argues that the most significant impact of Russian culture is not to be found in stylistic borrowings between canonical authors, but in the shaping of the major intellectual questions of the period: the relation between language and action, writer and audience, and the work of art and lived experience. The resulting account brings an occluded genealogy of early modernism to the fore, with a different arrangement of protagonists, different critical values, and stronger lines of connection to the realist experiments of the Victorian past, and the anti-formalism and revived romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s future.
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Author: James Cracraft
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Size: 68.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 661
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Focusing on internal developments in Imperial Russia, this book provides even-handed coverage of the period, with thorough attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Political history is balanced with a clear vision of social and economic change.
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Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher: Abc-Clio Incorporated
ISBN: 9781851096466
Size: 55.32 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1213
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Author: Raymond Pearson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Size: 45.53 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A highly topical analysis of European Nationalism from the French Revolution through to the aftermath of the First World War, when the nationalist issues and problems that dominate the political landscape of our own time were already fully established. Covering an enormous range of peoples -- from the Icelanders to the Gypsies, from Brittany to Wallachia -- the book presents a wealth of historical geopolitical information unavailable elsewhere. Essential as a reference work, it also provides a unique opportunity to survey systematically a crucial but fragmented subject in its full European context. For historians, political scientists, departments of European studies, and general readers.
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Author: Ian D. Armour
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
ISBN:
Size: 65.11 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Ian Armour's authoritative history of Eastern Europe spans the turbulent years from 1740 to 1918. It traces how the big powers, most notably the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian Empires, jostled for control in the region and examines the roots of nationalism which were nurtured by harrowing poverty and social turmoil.