Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930 PDF
by Peter Kaye
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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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/1999
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/1999
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- ISBN:9780511035388
