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Author Kaye, Peter, 1952-

Title Dostoevsky and English modernism, 1900-1930 / Peter Kaye
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Prophetic rage and rivalry: D.H. Lawrence -- A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf -- Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett -- Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad -- Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James
Summary "The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, and James - either admired Dostoevsky or feared him as monster who might dissolve all literary and cultural distinctions. Though their responses differed greatly, these writers were unanimous in their inability to recognize Dostoevsky as a literary artist. They viewed him instead as a psychologist, a mystic, a prophet, and, in the cases of Lawrence and Conrad, a hated rival who compelled creative response. This study constructs a map of English modernist novelists' misreadings of Dostoevsky, and in so doing it illuminates their aesthetic and cultural values and the nature of the modern English novel."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index
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Subject Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Influence
SUBJECT Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 fast
Dostoevskij, Fedor M. swd
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Russian fiction -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
English literature -- Russian influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature -- Russian influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Modernism (Literature)
Russian fiction -- Appreciation
Schriftsteller
Moderne
Rezeption
Literatur
Roman
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Receptie.
Great Britain
England
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98038085
ISBN 051100558X
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