English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance |
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| Author:
| Polonsky, Rachel |
| Contribution by:
| Kelly, Catriona
Cross, Anthony
Emerson, Caryl
Heldt, Barbara
Jones, Malcolm
Rayfield, Donald
Smith, G. S.
Terras, Victor |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-02747-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.99 |
Book Description:
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This is the first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to Aestheticism, focusing particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these influences, and a discussion of Russian conceptions of national identity, literary influence and...
More DescriptionThis is the first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to Aestheticism, focusing particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these influences, and a discussion of Russian conceptions of national identity, literary influence and the origins of comparative literary history.