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Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics: Collected Essays (Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, Society)
Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics Collected Essays - Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, Society Author:Neil Cornwell Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-1869) was a fascinating and encyclopedic figurein nineteenth-century Russian culture, who in his day was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol. Thinker, pedagogue, musicologist, amateur scientist and public servant, he is now undergoing a revival as a virtually rediscovered writer of Romantic and Gothic fictio... more »n. The author, a leading specialist on Odoevsky, analyses the contribution of Odoevsky to Russian prose fiction and in particular his influential approach to Romanticism, his Gothic novellas and his proto-science fiction, as well as his critical reception.« less