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Dostoevsky and English modernism, 1900-1930
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Dostoevsky and English modernism, 1900-1930

Author: Peter Kaye
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, and James - either admired Dostoevsky or feared him as monster who might dissolve all literary and cultural distinctions. Though their responses differed greatly, these writers were unanimous in their inability to recognize Dostoevsky as a literary artist. They viewed him instead as a psychologist, a mystic, a  Read more...
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Named Person: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Fedor M Dostoevskij
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Kaye
ISBN: 0521623588 9780521623582
OCLC Number: 39633413
Description: viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Prophetic rage and rivalry: D. H. Lawrence --
3. A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf --
4. Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett --
5. Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad --
6. Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James.
Responsibility: Peter Kaye.
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A study of the responses of major English novelists of the early twentieth century to Dostoevsky's work.  Read more...

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