Love and Russian Literature
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Love and Russian Literature

From Benjamin to Woolf

Ira B. Nadel

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eBook - ePub

Love and Russian Literature

From Benjamin to Woolf

Ira B. Nadel

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About This Book

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
ISBN
9781350115033
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria di letteratura comparata

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: “Magnanimous Despair” (Marvell)
  8. Prelude: Walter Benjamin in Love
  9. 1 Somerset Maugham: Love and Russian Literature
  10. 2 R.H. Bruce Lockhart: Love and Revolution
  11. 3 Jane Ellen Harrison: In Love with Language
  12. 4 William Gerhardie: Flattery Is Not Enough or War de Luxe
  13. Interlude: Edmund Wilson: In Love with Lenin
  14. 5 H.G. Wells: Triangles
  15. 6 Virginia Woolf: The Sound of Russian Love
  16. Postscript: Isaiah Berlin: From the Finland Station
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Imprint