Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics

<p> 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 fiction. 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.</p>