Books by Angus Wrenn

The book presents a highly original account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. It explores the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital".

Three years spent in France, during the Second Empire of Napoleon III, gave Henry James an early mastery of the French language and its literature. When he settled in Europe, as an adult, it was not in Britain but, briefly yet crucially, in Paris.