Russia in Britain 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.
Russia in Britain 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.
Rebecca Beasley is Tutorial Fellow in English at The Queen's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Theorists of Modernist Poetry (Routledge, 2007), and is currently working on a book-length study of the impact of Russian culture on British literary modernism. She has also published essays on modernism and translation, the British 'intelligentsia', and the history of comparative literature. Philip Ross Bullock is Tutorial Fellow in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov (Legenda, 2005), and Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England (Royal Musical Association Monographs/ Ashgate, 2009), the first book-length study of Newmarch, and of the Edwardian discovery of Russian music more generally. He has published an annotated edition of the letters of Newmarch and Jean Sibelius. He has also written about questions of translation and reception in Russia and Britain, the influence of Walter Pater on Isaak Babel, Soviet translations of Oscar Wilde, and nineteenth-century Russian reactions to Darwin.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * "For God, for Tsar, and for Fatherland!" Russians on the British Stage from Napoleon to the Great War * Oscar Wilde's Vera; or The Nihilists * Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement * The Free Russian Library in London, 1898-1917 * 'Avert Your Eyes and Hold Your Noses': Non-Chekhovian Russian and Soviet Drama on the British Stage, 1900-1940 * Tsar's Hall: Russian Music in London, 1895-1926 * Le Sacre du printemps in London: The Politics of Embodied Freedom in Early Modern Dance and Suffragette Protest * Russian Aesthetics in Britain: Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm' * Reading Russian: Russian Studies and the Literary Canon * The Translation of Soviet Literature: John Rodker and PresLit * Russia and the British Intellectuals: The Significance of the Stalin-Wells Talk * British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema * 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
* Introduction * "For God, for Tsar, and for Fatherland!" Russians on the British Stage from Napoleon to the Great War * Oscar Wilde's Vera; or The Nihilists * Britain and the International Tolstoyan Movement * The Free Russian Library in London, 1898-1917 * 'Avert Your Eyes and Hold Your Noses': Non-Chekhovian Russian and Soviet Drama on the British Stage, 1900-1940 * Tsar's Hall: Russian Music in London, 1895-1926 * Le Sacre du printemps in London: The Politics of Embodied Freedom in Early Modern Dance and Suffragette Protest * Russian Aesthetics in Britain: Kandinsky, Sadleir, and Rhythm' * Reading Russian: Russian Studies and the Literary Canon * The Translation of Soviet Literature: John Rodker and PresLit * Russia and the British Intellectuals: The Significance of the Stalin-Wells Talk * British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema * 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
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