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Title Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism / Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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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
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
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.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Russian literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
English literature
English literature -- Russian influences
Modernism (Literature)
Russian literature -- Appreciation
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Beasley, Rebecca, 1971- editor.
Bullock, Philip Ross, editor
ISBN 9780191757761
0191757764