Table des matières

Illustrations

Contributors

Anthony Cross

1. By Way of Introduction: British Perception, Reception and Recognition of Russian Culture

Peter Cochran

2. Byron, Don Juan, and Russia

Anthony Cross

3. William Henry Leeds and Early British Responses to Russian Literature

Richard Marks

4. Russian icons through British eyes, c. 1830-1930

Scott Ruby

5. The crystal palace exhibition and Britain’s encounter with Russia

Tamsin Alexander

6. An ‘Extraordinary Engagement’: A Russian Opera Company in Victorian Britain

Tatiana Bogrdanova

7. Russian folk tales for English Readers: Two personalities and two strategies in British Translations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• Introduction
• William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1828–1889)
• Arthur Michell Ransome (1884–1967)
• Ralston versus Ransome: Translation Strategies and Practices

Philip Ross Bullock

8. ‘Wilful Melancholy’ or ‘a Vigorous and Manly Optimism’?: Rosa Newmarch and the Struggle against Decadence in the British Reception of Russian Music, 1897-1917

Louise Hardiman

9. ‘Infantine Smudges of Paint... Infantine Rudeness of Soul’: British Reception of Russian Art at the Exhibitions of the Allied Artists’ Association, 1908–1911

Muireann Maguire

10. Crime and Publishing: How Dostoevskii Changed the British Murder

• Stevenson: Murder in Cameo
• Gissing: Hero as Murderer
• Chesterton: the Knight-errant Detective
• Conclusion: the Isosceles Triangle

Michael Hughes

11. Stephen Graham and Russian Spirituality: The Pilgrim in Search of Salvation

Alexandra Smith

12. Jane Harrison as an Interpreter of Russian Culture in the 1910s-1920s

Marilyn Schwinn Smith

13. Aleksei Remizov’s English-language Translators: New Material

Rachel Polonsky

14. Chekhov and the Buried Life of Katherine Mansfield

Svetlana Klimova

15. ‘A Gaul who has chosen impeccable Russian as his medium’: Ivan Bunin and the British Myth of Russia in the Early 20th Century

Olga Ushakova

16. Russia and Russian Culture in The Criterion, 1922-1939

Nicola Kozicharow

17. ‘Racy of the Soil’: Filipp Maliavin’s London Exhibition of 1935

Claire Knight

18. Mrs Churchill Goes to Russia: The Wartime Gift Exchange between Britain and the Soviet Union

• The Gift of Life: Mrs. Churchill’s Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund
• The Counter-Gift: Mrs. Churchill’s Visit to Russia
• British Indebtedness and the Gift of Death
• Soviet Anxieties and the Gift of a Partisan Death

Emma Minns

19. ‘Unity in difference’: The Representation of Life in the Soviet Union through Isotype

• Personalities
• The evolution of the series
• Responses to the series

Verity Clarkson

20. ‘Sputniks and Sideboards’: Exhibiting the Soviet ‘Way of Life’ in Cold War Britain, 1961-1979

Julian Graffy

21. The British Reception of Russian Film 1960-1990: The Role of Sight and Sound

• Some Figures
• Who Were the Authors?
• What Kinds of Publication?
• Studies of Individual Directors
• Other Rubrics
• Broader Engagements with Industry Developments
• Sight and Sound’s Achievement

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