TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olga Soboleva
AU  - Angus Wrenn
PY  - 2017
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787073944
TI  - From Orientalism to Cultural Capital
T2  - The Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1920s
DO  - 10.3726/b11211
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109856
N2  - From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and the notion of «cultural capital» associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Examining the responses of leading literary practitioners who had a significant impact on the institutional transmission of Russian culture, they reassess the mechanics of cultural dialogism, mediation and exchange, casting new light on British perceptions of modernism as a transcultural artistic movement and the ways in which the literary interaction with the myth of Russia shaped and intensified these cultural views.
KW  - British literature, Russophilia, Modernism, Anglo-Russian connections
LA  - English
ER  -