Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900-1930
Book Details
Author(s)Peter Kaye
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521623588
ISBN-139780521623582
AvailabilityUsually ships in 3 to 4 weeks
Sales Rank5,676,727
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book examines how seven major English novelists--D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Henry James, and John Galsworthy--responded to the work of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in the early years of the twentieth century. Dostoevsky's work provoked heated and exaggerated responses, both positive and negative, from these English writers. A study of their literary and critical reactions to Dostoevsky illuminates their aesthetic and cultural values, and the nature of the modern English novel.

