Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics: Collected Essays

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.