A people passing rude

"Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin'd", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements-in music, art and particularly literature-achieved widespread recognition in Britain. 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 challenge of Pushkin-to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film. Edited by Anthony Cross, one of the world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, A People Passing Rude is essential reading for anyone with an interest in British and Russian cultures and their complex relationship."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 3 mai 2017).

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 …