|
|
Article: Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 & English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Sage Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930. By Peter Kaye. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Pp. vii + 248. [pound]37.50.
English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. By Rachel Polonsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. xii + 249. [pound]45.00.
These two excellent studies on English-Russian literary reception cover overlapping periods of exceptional artistic innovation, only from opposite and asymmetric perspectives. Peter Kaye focuses on the responses of seven English modernist novelists - D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, B. M. Forster, John Galsworthy and Henry James - 'who were most affected by their readings' (p. 3) of one ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|