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