Russomania : Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922

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RUSSOMANIA: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1922
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Illustrations
Note on Transliteration, Names, and Dates
Introduction
	DESPAIR IN THE DRAWING ROOM
	‘THE RUSSIAN INFLUENCE’
	RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN BRITAIN
	RUSSIAN AND FRENCH REALISMS
	FROM NATURALISM TO MODERNISM
	MODERNIST STUDIES AND WORLD LITERATURE
1: Modern Worlds, Simple Lives
	1.1 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN: ‘THE POETRY OF FORM AND THE POETRY OF ACTION’
	1.2 LIMPSFIELD MODERNISM
	1.3 SOCIALISMS
	1.4 THE SIMPLE LIFE
	1.5 LIFE WRITING: RICHARDSON’S PILGRIMAGE
Interchapter 1: The Whitechapel Group
2: Aspects of the Novel: The English Review, the Anglo-Russian Convention, and Impressionism
	2.1 FORD’S ENGLISH REVIEW AND ‘IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE’
	2.2 NEW LIBERALS, THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN CONVENTION, AND REALISM
	2.3 CONRAD AND THE ANTI-RUSSIAN NOVEL
Interchapter 2: ‘The New Spirit’ in Theatre
3: War Work: Propaganda, Translation, Civilization
	3.1 PROPAGANDA: WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND THE RUSSIAN ALLY
	3.2 THE RUSSIAN SOUL
	3.3 TRANSLATION AND LINGUISTIC OPTIMISM: KOTELYANSKY, LAWRENCE, MANSFIELD, AND MURRY
	3.4 AGAINST CIVILIZATION: THE SIGNATURE GROUP AND DOSTOEVSKY
	3.5 NEW FICTIONS: LAWRENCE’S THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE, MURRY’S STILL LIFE, MANSFIELD’S PRELUDE
Interchapter 3: Modern Languages
4: Against the Machine: Imagists, Symbolists, Journalists, Diplomats, and Spies
	4.1 IMAGISM, SYMBOLISM, AND THE EGOIST
	4.2 DOSTOEVSKIAN AESTHETICS: COURNOS, FLETCHER, AND O’BRIEN
	4.3 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS AND THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN COMMISSION
	4.4 LITERATURE OF THE REVOLUTIONS
Conclusion
	A DIFFERENT MODERN
Bibliography
Index