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A new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain that attends to the role played by British writers in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and the effects of that encounter on modernist writing.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Modern Worlds, Simple Lives
- Interchapter 1: The Whitechapel Group
- 2: Aspects of the Novel: The English Review, the Anglo-Russian Convention, and Impressionism
- Interchapter 2: 'The New Spirit' in Theatre
- 3: War Work: Propaganda, Translation, Civilization
- Interchapter 3: Modern Languages
- 4: Against the Machine: Imagists, Symbolists, Journalists, Diplomats, and Spies
- Conclusion: A Different Modern
About the author
Rebecca Beasley is Associate Professor in English at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of The Queen's College. She is the author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Theorists of Modernist Poetry: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and T.E. Hulme (Routledge Critical Thinkers, 2007), and editor, with Philip Ross Bullock, of Russia in Britain: From Melodrama to Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2013). She has also published articles on modernism and translation, periodical culture, the British 'intelligentsia', and the history of comparative literature.
Summary
A new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain that attends to the role played by British writers in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and the effects of that encounter on modernist writing.
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Rebecca Beasley's great achievement in Russomania is to trace the evolution of opinions, arguments, and personal connections through these contested and interlocking literary channels. She skillfully deploys her clearly exhaustive knowledge, gleaned from both archival sources and later academic criticism, making a complicated period in the British reception of Russian culture both legible and fascinating for any reader with even a passing interest in British, Russian, or European modernism.
