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  • Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf

    Love and Russian Literature by Nadel, Ira;

    From Benjamin to Woolf

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 30 November 2023
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350115019
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages264 pages
    • Size 238x162x22 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • 508

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: 'Magnanimous Despair'
    Prelude: Walter Benjamin in Love
    Ch. 1 Somerset Maugham: 'Love and Russian Literature'
    Ch. 2 H. Bruce Lockhart: Love and Revolution
    Ch. 3 Jane Harrison: In Love with Language
    Ch. 4 William Gerhardie: Flattery is Not Enough
    Interlude: Edmund Wilson: In Love with Lenin/ EdmundWilson Russian Love
    Ch. 5 H.G. Wells: Triangles
    Ch. 6 Virginia Woolf: The Sound of Russian Love
    Postscript: Isaiah Berlin: From the Finland Station
    Index

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