The Domesticated European? Georg Brandesâ Impressions of Russia and his Russian Reception

Birgitte Beck Pristed

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Chapter 11 The Domesticated European? Georg Brandesâ Impressions of Russia and his Russian Reception

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Pages:: 228â259

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682191_013

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The chapter covers Brandesâ 1887 lecture travel to Russia that resulted in clashes of expectations between him and his intended and unintended audiences at home and abroad. Despite Brandesâ aim at overcoming narrow nationalist approaches to literary history, Pristed argues that his Impressions of Russia reinforced essentialist, French-inspired âEuro-Orientalistâ perceptions of the âsubalternâ Russian Empire, which were characteristic of his time in the 1880s. However, Brandes articulated his awareness of the linguistic and conceptual limitations of such an approach â and his attempts at defending Polish intellectuals against their imperial tsarina-oppressor of Danish origin foreshadowed contemporary inner-European decolonization debates about languages and literatures. The chapter further examines how Russian critics, publishers, and translators presented Brandes and his writings in the Westernizer and Slavophile camps of the journal landscape. Pristed points to the commentatorsâ inconsistent domestication and alienation strategies and demonstrates how the Russian depictions of Brandes changed over time. Brandesâ navigation between authoritarian and liberal forces within Russian society was not as straight forward as one could expect. In Russia, Brandes became a âdomesticatedâ, rather than âgoodâ European.

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Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

Series:Â Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 213Â andÂ Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 213

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004682191

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2023

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