A people passing rude : British responses to Russian culture

A people passing rude : British responses to Russian culture /

"The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century -- when Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an English critic sought to come to terms with the challeng...

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Other Authors: Cross, Anthony (Anthony Glenn), 1936- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : OpenBook Publishers, [2012]
©2012
Subjects:
Art and literature > Great Britain > Russian influences.
Eastern Europe.
Europe.
Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
General and world history.
History.
Humanities.
Russia.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
ART > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Civilization > Russian influences
Civilization
Great Britain > Civilization > Russian influences.
Russia > Civilization.
Russia > History > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > Influence russe.
Russia
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Sources
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • By Way of Introduction: British Reception, Perception and Recognition of Russian Culture / Anthony Cross
  • Byron, Don Juan and Russia / Peter Cochran
  • William Henry Leeds and Early British Responses to Russian Literature / Anthony Cross
  • Russian Icons through British Eyes, 1830-1930 / Richard Marks
  • The Crystal Palace Exhibition and Britain's Encounter with Russia / Scott Ruby
  • An 'Extraordinary Engagement': A Russian Opera Company in Victorian Britain / Tamsin Alexander
  • Russian Folk Tales for English Readers: Two Personalities and Two Strategies in British Translation of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Tatiana Bogrdanova
  • 'Wilful Melancholy' or 'A Vigorous and Manly Optimism'?: Rosa Newmarch and the Struggle against Decadence in the British Reception of Russian Music, 1897-1917 / Philip Ross Bullock
  • 'Infantine Smudges of Paint ... Infantine Rudeness of Soul': British Reception of Russian Art at the Exhibitions of the Allied Artists' Association, 1908-1911 / Louise Hardiman
  • Crime and Publishing: How Dostoevskii Changed the British Murder / Muireann Maguire
  • Stephen Graham and Russian Spirituality: The Pilgrim in Search of Salvation / Michael Hughes
  • Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s / Alexandra Smith
  • Aleksei Remizov's English-language Translators: New Material Marilyn / Schwinn Smith
  • Chekhov and the Buried Life of Katherine Mansfield / Rachel Polonsky
  • 'A Gaul who has chosen impeccable Russian as his medium': Ivan Bunin and the English Myth of Russia in the Early Twentieth Century / Svetlana Klimova
  • Russia and Russian Culture in The Criterion, 1922-1939 / Olga Ushakova
  • 'Racy of the Soil': Filipp Maliavin's London Exhibition of 1935 / Nicola Kozicharow
  • Mrs Churchill Goes to Russia: The Wartime Gift-Exchange between Britain and the Soviet Union / Claire Knight
  • Unity in Difference: The Representation of Life in the Soviet Union through Isotype / Emma Minns
  • 'Sputniks and Sideboards': Exhibiting the Soviet 'Way of Life' in Cold War Britain, 1961-1979 / Verity Clarkson
  • The British Reception of Russian Film, 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound / Julian Graffy.

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