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Article: Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the 'Library for Reading.'(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the 'Library for Reading.' By MELISSA FRAZIER. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2007. 264 pp. $55. ISBN 978-0-8047-5517-7.
Melissa Frazier's monograph makes a significant contribution to Slavicist and European literary and cultural history. Romantic Encounters examines Romanticism in Russia, focusing not on the usual suspects of canonical Russian literary history, but rather on the figure of Osip Senkovskii, and on the Library for Reading, the journal he edited with remarkable commercial success (measured by unprecedented subscription rates) and so much critical condemnation from 1834 until the late 1840s. ...