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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 - From Melodrama to Modernism (Hardcover, New)
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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 - From Melodrama to Modernism (Hardcover, New)
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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 1880s, the decade which saw the first
sustained interest in Russian literature, to 1940, 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, Theodore
Komisarjevsky, 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 of
Anglo-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.
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