Peter Kaye

Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035388
• Artikelnr.: 38213557

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Prophetic rage and rivalry: D. H. Lawrence
3. A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf
4. Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett
5. Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad
6. Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.