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Russomania - Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922 (Hardcover)
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Russomania - Russian culture and the creation of British modernism, 1881-1922 (Hardcover)
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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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