English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780521027472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 268 str.

Rachel Polonsky; Catriona Kelly; Professor Anthony Cross

Opis

This is the first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to Aestheticism. It focuses particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these influences, and a discussion of Russian conceptions of national identity, literary influence and the origins of comparative literary history.