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Kabanova I. V. Russia in James Hilton’s Knight Without Armour. Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2020, vol. 20, iss. 1, pp. 65-70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2020-20-1-65-70

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Literary criticism

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821.111.09-3+929Хилтон

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Russian

Russia in James Hilton’s Knight Without Armour

Against the vogue for Russia in British travel books of the 1930s, the paper brings back to light James Hilton’s novel Knight Without Armour (1933), set mainly in Russia in Revolutionary years. This entertainment novel is shown to lack the excessive political stance on Russia found in the travel genre of the period. Hilton creates a nice balance between general Western stereotypes of Russia and his individual vision, thus normalizing the reception of Russia for Western reader.

Authors:

Kabanova

Irina

Valeryevna

,

Saratov State University

,

Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83

,

ivk77@hotmail.com

Key words:

image of Russia, James Hilton, spy novel, space, national identity, history

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2020-20-1-65-70

Literature

Cunningham V. British Writers of the Thirties. Oxford, 1988. P. 396–406.
Hilton J. Knight Without Armour. L., 1933. URL: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks10/1000051h.html (дата обращения: 10.11.2019).
Дэвид-Фокс М. Витрины великого эксперимента. Культурная дипломатия Советского Союза и его западные гости, 1921–1941. М., 2015.

Journal issue:

Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2020, vol. 20, iss. 1,

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