Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350425583)

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century - whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Author: Ira B. Nadel
ISBN-10: 1350425583
ISBN-13: 9781350425583
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2025
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d