Ira B. Nadel

Love and Russian Literature (eBook, PDF)

From Benjamin to Woolf

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century - whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350115026
• Artikelnr.: 68529366

Autorenporträt

Ira B. Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and a winner of the Medal for Canadian Biography (1996). He is based at the University of British Columbia, but lectures throughout Europe, North America and the rest of the world. His works include David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (2008), Tom Stoppard: Author and Autobiography (2002) and Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Magnanimous Despair' Prelude: Walter Benjamin in Love Ch. 1
Somerset Maugham: 'Love and Russian Literature' Ch. 2 H. Bruce Lockhart:
Love and Revolution Ch. 3 Jane Harrison: In Love with Language Ch. 4
William Gerhardie: Flattery is Not Enough Interlude: Edmund Wilson: In Love
with Lenin/ EdmundWilson Russian Love Ch. 5 H.G. Wells: Triangles Ch. 6
Virginia Woolf: The Sound of Russian Love Postscript: Isaiah Berlin: From
the Finland Station Index