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Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Literature: history & criticism > Fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 (Hardback)
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Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 (Hardback)

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Hardback 258 Pages / Published: 06/05/1999
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Synopsis
When Constance Garnett's translations (1910-20) made Dostoevsky's novels accessible in England for the first time they introduced a disruptive and liberating literary force, and English novelists had to confront a new model and rival. The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy and James - either admired or feared Dostoevsky as a 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.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521623582
Number of pages: 258
Weight: 550 g
Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm

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