A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture - cover image

Copyright

Authors

Published On

2012-11-01

ISBN

Paperback978-1-909254-10-7
Hardback978-1-909254-11-4
PDF978-1-909254-12-1
HTML978-1-80064-449-6
EPUB978-1-909254-13-8
MOBI978-1-909254-14-5

Language

  • English

Print Length

347 pages (xvi + 331)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 18 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.72" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 21 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.81" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1079g (38.06oz)
Hardback1465g (51.68oz)

Media

Illustrations26
Tables2

OCLC Number

821261988

LCCN

2019467806

BIC

  • 1DVUA
  • DS

BISAC

  • LIT004240
  • HIS032000
  • ART049000

LCC

  • DA47.65

Keywords

  • Russian literature
  • Russian art
  • Russian history
  • Anglo-Russian relations
  • Russian music
  • Russia
  • United Kingdom

A People Passing Rude

British Responses to Russian Culture

Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence on British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century—when Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of Pushkin—to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain’s engagement with Soviet film. Edited by Anthony Cross, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, A People Passing Rude is essential reading for anyone with an interest in British and Russian cultures and their complex relationship.

Reviews

A People Passing Rude is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between Britain and Russia and the Soviet Union. Anthony Cross, the doyen of this field, here adds to his many previous collections and monographs on this subject with a collection of essays in which new material, new connections and new insights emerge on almost every page.

Rebecca Beasley

Slavonica (1361-7427), vol. 20, no. 1, 2014. doi:10.1179/1361742714Z.00000000028

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Additional Resources

[website]Anthony Cross's interview on A People Passing Rude(broadcast by The Voice of Russia in June 2013)

N.B. This is an archived webpage -- in order to listen to the recording, click 'download audio file' beneath the embedded media player on the webpage. You can then open the downloaded file using your media player of choice.

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