The Vogue for Russia
Modernism and the Unseen in Britain 1900-1930
Seiten
2015
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-4729-3 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-4729-3 (ISBN)
Explores the influence of Russian mystical aesthetics on British modernists. This book includes unpublished archive materials as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts. It also features the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism.
Explores the influence of Russian mystical aesthetics on British modernists. In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in mysticism? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Wassily Kandinsky, Pyotr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield.
Draws on unpublished archive materials as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts; addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism; challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms and combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies.
Explores the influence of Russian mystical aesthetics on British modernists. In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in mysticism? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Wassily Kandinsky, Pyotr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield.
Draws on unpublished archive materials as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts; addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism; challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms and combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies.
Caroline Maclean is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2015 |
---|---|
Zusatzinfo | 24 b&w illustrations |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7486-4729-5 / 0748647295 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7486-4729-3 / 9780748647293 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Dichtung, Natur und die Verwandlung der Kräfte 1770-1830
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
59,00 €