A people passing rude British responses to Russian culture /

A people passing rude British responses to Russian culture / [electronic resource] : edited by Anthony Cross. - 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

By Way of Introduction: British Reception, Perception and Recognition of Russian Culture / Byron, Don Juan and Russia / William Henry Leeds and Early British Responses to Russian Literature / Russian Icons through British Eyes, 1830-1930 / The Crystal Palace Exhibition and Britain's Encounter with Russia / An 'Extraordinary Engagement': A Russian Opera Company in Victorian Britain / Russian Folk Tales for English Readers: Two Personalities and Two Strategies in British Translation of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / 'Wilful Melancholy' or 'A Vigorous and Manly Optimism'?: Rosa Newmarch and the Struggle against Decadence in the British Reception of Russian Music, 1897-1917 / 'Infantine Smudges of Paint... Infantine Rudeness of Soul': British Reception of Russian Art at the Exhibitions of the Allied Artists' Association, 1908-1911 / Crime and Publishing: How Dostoevskii Changed the British Murder / Stephen Graham and Russian Spirituality: The Pilgrim in Search of Salvation / Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s / Aleksei Remizov's English-language Translators: New Material Marilyn / Chekhov and the Buried Life of Katherine Mansfield / 'A Gaul who has chosen impeccable Russian as his medium': Ivan Bunin and the English Myth of Russia in the Early Twentieth Century / Russia and Russian Culture in The Criterion, 1922-1939 / 'Racy of the Soil': Filipp Maliavin's London Exhibition of 1935 / Mrs Churchill Goes to Russia: The Wartime Gift-Exchange between Britain and the Soviet Union / Unity in Difference: The Representation of Life in the Soviet Union through Isotype / 'Sputniks and Sideboards': Exhibiting the Soviet 'Way of Life' in Cold War Britain, 1961-1979 / The British Reception of Russian Film, 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound / Anthony Cross -- Peter Cochran -- Anthony Cross -- Richard Marks -- Scott Ruby -- Tamsin Alexander -- Tatiana Bogrdanova -- Philip Ross Bullock -- Louise Hardiman -- Muireann Maguire -- Michael Hughes -- Alexandra Smith -- Schwinn Smith -- Rachel Polonsky -- Svetlana Klimova -- Olga Ushakova -- Nicola Kozicharow -- Claire Knight -- Emma Minns -- Verity Clarkson -- 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.

9781909254121 (electronic bk.) 1909254126 (electronic bk.)

016274181 Uk


Art and literature--Russian influences.--Great Britain
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union


Great Britain--Civilization--Russian influences.
Russia--Civilization.
Russia--History--Sources.


Electronic books.

DA47.65 / .C767 2012

947.084