Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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.
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Title
Dostoevsky and English modernism, 1900-1930.
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0521623588
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Influence.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Influence.
Dostoevskij, Fedor M.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Russian influences.
Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
Russian fiction-- Appreciation-- Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.