Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 : from melodrama to modernism edited by Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock.

Contributor(s): Beasley, Rebecca, 1971- | Bullock, Philip RossPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780199660865 (hbk.); 0199660867 (hbk.)Subject(s): English literature -- Russian influences | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Russian literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain | Modernism (Literature) -- Great BritainDDC classification: 820.935847 LOC classification: PR129.R8 | R87 2013
Contents:
Introduction : against influence : on writing about Russian culture in Britain / Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock -- "For God, for Czar, for fatherland" : Russians on the British stage from Napoleon to the Great War / Laurence Senelick -- "Nihilists of Castlebar!" : exporting Russian nihilism in the 1880s and the case of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or the nihilists / Michael Newton -- Britain and the international Tolstoyan movement, 1890-1910 / Charlotte Alston -- "For the cause of education" : a history of the Free Russian Library in Whitechapel, 1898-1917 / Robert Henderson -- "Formless", "pretentious", "hideous and revolting" : non-Chekhov Russian and Soviet drama on the British stage / Stuart Young -- Tsar's hall : Russian music in London, 1895-1926 / Philip Ross Bullock -- Le Sacre du printemps in London : the politics of embodied freedom in early modernist dance and suffragette protest / Ramsay Burt -- Russian aesthetics in Britain : Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm / Caroline Maclean -- Reading Russian : Russian studies and the literary canon / Rebecca Beasley -- The translation of Soviet literature : John Rodker and PresLit / Ian Patterson -- Russia and the British intellectuals : the significance of The Stalin-Wells talk / Matthew Taunton -- The tempo of revolution : British film culture and Soviet cinema in the 1920s / Laura Marcus -- Soviet films and British intelligence in the 1930s : the case of Kino Films and MI5 / James Smith -- Afterword : a time and a place for everything : on Russia, Britain, and being modern / Ken Hirschkop.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-297) and index.

Introduction : against influence : on writing about Russian culture in Britain / Rebecca Beasley and Philip Ross Bullock -- "For God, for Czar, for fatherland" : Russians on the British stage from Napoleon to the Great War / Laurence Senelick -- "Nihilists of Castlebar!" : exporting Russian nihilism in the 1880s and the case of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or the nihilists / Michael Newton -- Britain and the international Tolstoyan movement, 1890-1910 / Charlotte Alston -- "For the cause of education" : a history of the Free Russian Library in Whitechapel, 1898-1917 / Robert Henderson -- "Formless", "pretentious", "hideous and revolting" : non-Chekhov Russian and Soviet drama on the British stage / Stuart Young -- Tsar's hall : Russian music in London, 1895-1926 / Philip Ross Bullock -- Le Sacre du printemps in London : the politics of embodied freedom in early modernist dance and suffragette protest / Ramsay Burt -- Russian aesthetics in Britain : Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm / Caroline Maclean -- Reading Russian : Russian studies and the literary canon / Rebecca Beasley -- The translation of Soviet literature : John Rodker and PresLit / Ian Patterson -- Russia and the British intellectuals : the significance of The Stalin-Wells talk / Matthew Taunton -- The tempo of revolution : British film culture and Soviet cinema in the 1920s / Laura Marcus -- Soviet films and British intelligence in the 1930s : the case of Kino Films and MI5 / James Smith -- Afterword : a time and a place for everything : on Russia, Britain, and being modern / Ken Hirschkop.

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