The Only Hope of the World: George Bernard Shaw and Russia
Author:   Olga Soboleva ,  Angus Wrenn
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9783034307451


Pages:   231
Publication Date:   25 July 2012
Format:   Paperback
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The Only Hope of the World: George Bernard Shaw and Russia


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Author:   Olga Soboleva ,  Angus Wrenn
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9783034307451


ISBN 10:   3034307454
Pages:   231
Publication Date:   25 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Shaw and the Russian Anarchists, early encounters and shaping of Shaw’s socialist views – Shaw and Lev Tolstoy, personal correspondence and literary parallels in Shewing up of Blanco Posnet and The Power of Darkness – Shaw, Maxim Gorky and the didactic theatre; comparative analysis of Heartbreak House and Summerfolk – Shaw and the Bolshevik Revolution: the writer’s views on the Russian events of 1917 and his playlet Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress – Shaw’s trip to the USSR in 1931 – Shaw’s last plays on the Soviet stage and his reception in Russia.

Reviews

This is, in short, an excellent book: well researched, clearly written, and difficult to put down. (Matthew Yde, SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, 33/2013)


Author Information

Olga Soboleva teaches Russian and Comparative Literature at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and European culture. Her recent publications include The Silver Mask: Harlequinade in the Symbolist Poetry of Blok and Belyi (2008) and articles on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Chekhov, Boris Akunin and Victor Pelevin. Angus Wrenn has taught Comparative Literature at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1997. His most recent publications include Henry James and the Second Empire (2009) and articles on the reception of Ford Madox Ford and Henry James in Europe.

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