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When Constance Garnett's translations (1910–1920) made Dostoevsky's novels accessible in England for the first time they introduced a disruptive and liberating literary force, and English novelists had to confront a new model and rival. The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy and James - either admired or feared Dostoevsky as a 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930
• Author: Kaye, Peter (Northwestern University, Illinois)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9780521623582
• ISBN: 0521623588
• ID: 02037899
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 49 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 158 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. May 1999

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