%0 Book
%A Olga Soboleva
%A Angus Wrenn
%D 2017
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781787073944
%T From Orientalism to Cultural Capital
%B The Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1920s
%R 10.3726/b11211
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109856
%X 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.
%K British literature, Russophilia, Modernism, Anglo-Russian connections
%G English