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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Electronic version: Beasley, Rebecca. Russomania. Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020 (OCoLC)1147271384 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Beasley |
ISBN: | 9780198802129 0198802129 |
OCLC Number: | 1153973718 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner, BASEES Womens Forum Prize 2022. |
Description: | xvi, 533 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction1: Modern Worlds, Simple LivesInterchapter 1: The Whitechapel Group2: Aspects of the Novel: The English Review, the Anglo-Russian Convention, and ImpressionismInterchapter 2: 'The New Spirit' in Theatre3: War Work: Propaganda, Translation, CivilizationInterchapter 3: Modern Languages4: Against the Machine: Imagists, Symbolists, Journalists, Diplomats, and SpiesConclusion: A Different Modern |
Responsibility: | Rebecca Beasley. |
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I have nothing butvadmiration for the scope and ambition of Rebecca Beasley's study, as well as for the meticulous and exhaustive research that lies at its foundation. * Galya Diment, The Wellsian * ...the book offers a broad overview of the period and a discussion of specific pivotal literary events in Russo-British relations...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * J. W. Moffett, Kentucky State University, CHOICE * ... this densely argued book exudes warm commitment and unflagging intellectual energy. [...] Dr Beasley is a worthy successor to an illustrious line of specialists in English literature who have made inspired contributions to Russian studies: the names of John Bayley, Donald Davie, and Henry Gifford spring immediately to mind. The seventy-plus-page bibliography that rounds out her book, and the punctilious undergirding of footnotes that it documents, give detailedevidence of a formidable feat of assimilated documentation, a good proportion of it in Russian. * G. S. Smith, Essays in Criticism * In addition to the contribution of this reading against the grain to the history of British modernism, the book will be appreciated for the great richness of this plunge into always complex and intense debates. * Delphine Rumeau, Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures [Translated from French] * Full of intriguing detail, Russomania is so complete a history that it seems greedy to want more. [...] Beasleys meticulous footnotes and bibliography offer the reader all the information needed for further investigation. * Pilgrimages: A Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies * many a Russianist would find numerous rewarding insights in Russomania ... Beasley offers many more analytical examples that uncover routes of multidirectional cultural exchange in the modernist age. Her account of the British fascination with Russia, both positive and negative ... reveals important aspects of what "Russianness" meant in early twentieth-century Britain. In turn, this knowledge will likely be indispensable for understanding not only Europeanmodernism, but in addition, later developments in the British-Soviet cultural dialogue. * Roman Utkin, Russian Review * Read more...

