Dostoevsky and English modernism, 1900-1930:
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Main Author: Kaye, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 1999
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index
"The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, and James - either admired Dostoevsky or feared him as monster who might dissolve all literary and cultural distinctions. Though their responses differed greatly, these writers were unanimous in their inability to recognize Dostoevsky as a literary artist. They viewed him instead as a psychologist, a mystic, a prophet, and, in the cases of Lawrence and Conrad, a hated rival who compelled creative response. This study constructs a map of English modernist novelists' misreadings of Dostoevsky, and in so doing it illuminates their aesthetic and cultural values and the nature of the modern English novel."--Jacket
Introduction -- Prophetic rage and rivalry: D. H. Lawrence -- A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf -- Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett -- Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad -- Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 248 pages)
ISBN:051100558X
9780511005589

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