title: Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination (Literary Conjugations)
author:  Valeria Sobol 
description: "One of the great contributions Sobol makes is her attention to the mutual influence of the languages of science and literature."Lonny Harrison, <i>Canadian Slavonic Papers</i>, Summer 2011<P>"One of the book's key strengths, its full-blooded engagement with the scientific contexts that inform the (mostly) novels at hand, shows Sobol to be of the best sort of humanities scholar, not fighting shy of the 'extraneous' intellectual matter that underpins creative praxis."B.D. Morgan, <i>Slavonic and East European Review</i>, October 2011<P>"In this excellent study, Valeria Sobol explains its [lovesickness] central importance first in the west (starting with ancient Greek culture), and then in different Russian literary movements from its entrance into Russia in the Petrine period.The book alternates between close textual analysis and literary history so as to situate each text and author within a mostly vanished past."<i>Slavic Review</i><P>"In this book, Valeria Sobol takes a well known factthat 'lovesickness' plays a significant role in the Russian literary imagination and makes it the nexus of a fertile study with stunning depth and breadth. . . . The book is so rich and full of information, and written in such clear and masterful prose. . . come away with understanding Russian literary culture in new and profound ways."<i>The Russian Review</i><P>"Throughout the book is well grounded in both Greek and early modern philosophy and in relevant psychological and medical theories of the 19th century."<i>Choice</i>
zlib_text: RUSSIAN’S OBSESSION
   
  AN OLDER MAN YOUNGER WOMAN ROMANCE
   
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  A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS, 88
   
   
  FLORA FERRARI
  
  CONTENTS
   
  Copyright
  A Man Who Knows What He Wants Series
   
  Russian's Obsession
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Epilogue
   
  Extended Epilogue
   
  Series
  Newsletter
  
  COPYRIGHT
   
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