Love and Russian Literature

From Benjamin to Woolf

Ira B. Nadel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-42558-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Ira Nadel is UBC Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a prolific critic and biographer whose previous publications include David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (Methuen Drama, 2008) and Modernism's Second Act (2013)

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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-42558-3 / 1350425583
ISBN-13	978-1-350-42558-3 / 9781350425583
Zustand	Neuware