English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance: (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature

This is the first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to Aestheticism. It focuses particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Framing this account is a pioneering exploration of the intellectual background to these in