A people passing rude : British responses to Russian culture /
Cross, Anthony(Anthony Glenn),1936-editor.
Cambridge : OpenBook Publishers,
c2012.
"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 challenge of Pushkin -- to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 challenge of Pushkin -- to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film."--Back cover.
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