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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance »

Authors: Rachel Polonsky, Polonsky Rachel, Catriona Kelly
ISBN-13: 9780521027472, ISBN-10: 0521027470
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism.

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Notes on the text
	Introduction	1
1	Museum people	9
Pt. I	The Barbaric Renaissance	35
2	Rites of spring	37
3	Balmont's Shelley and the sacred books of the East	69
4	Edgar Allan Poe and the magic of words	97
Pt. II	The Aesthetic Renaissance	115
5	The renaissance of the renaissance	117
6	English Aestheticism and Blok's apocalypse	140
7	How important it is to be serious: Oscar Wilde's popularity	152
8	Kuzmin's English style	170
	Afterword	188
	Notes	192
	Bibliography	226
	Index	241