Staff - Neil Cornwell

Publications

Authored Books:

• V.F. Odoyevsky: His Life, Times and Milieu. Foreword by Isaiah Berlin. London: The Athlone Press, 1986.
• Pasternak's Novel: Perspectives on 'Doctor Zhivago', Keele: Essays in Poetics Publications 2, Keele University, 1986.
• The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernism, New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
• James Joyce and the Russians, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Russian edition (expanded), as Dzhois i Rossiia, St Petersburg: Academic Project, 1998.
• Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades'. 'Critical Studies in Russian Literature'. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1993. Second edition 2001.
• Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics: Collected Essays, Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998.
• Vladimir Nabokov, 'Writers and Their Work', Plymouth: Northcote House, 1999.
• The Absurd in Literature, Manchester: Manchester University Press [published August], xiv + 354 pp., 2006.

Edited Books:

• Irish Russian Contacts: A Special Issue (being Irish Slavonic Studies 5), Belfast: Irish Slavonic Studies, Queen's University, 1984.
• V.F. Odoyevsky, Pyostryye skazki, with Introduction and Notes. Durham Modern Languages Series: University of Durham, 1988.
• Daniil Kharms, The Plummeting Old Women, with Introduction. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1989.
• Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd: Essays and Materials, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991.
• Vladimir Odoevsky, The Salamander and other Gothic Stories, London: Bristol Classical Press, 1992 (and Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press).
• Daniil Kharms. Incidences, London: Serpent's Tail, 1993.
• Mikhail Lermontov. A Hero of Our Time, translated by Martin Parker. 'Everyman'. London: J.M. Dent (and Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle), 1995.
• Reference Guide to Russian Literature, London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
• The Society Tale in Russian Literature: from Odoevskii to Tolstoi. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998.
• The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew, 'New Casebooks'. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1998.
• The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999.
• The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature, London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, My Discovery of America, London: Hesperus Press, 'Modern Voices', 2005.

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Contributions to Books:

• 'Nameki na Lo: Sireny, Dzhois i "Lolita" Nabokova', pp. 603-22, in Vittorio: Mezhdunarodnyi nauchnyi sbornik posviashchennyi 75-letiiu Vittorio Strady, edited by Sergei Bocharov and Aleksandr Parnis, Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2005.
• Introduction to V.F. Odoyevsky, Romanticheskiye povesti (reprint of 1929 Leningrad edition), Oxford: Meeuws, 1975, pp. i-xiv.
• 'Olesha's "Envy" ', in The Structural Analysis of Russian Narrative Fiction (edited by Joe Andrew), Keele: Essays in Poetics Publication  1, 1984, pp. 115-36.
• 'Perspectives on the Romanticism of V.F. Odoyevsky', in Problems of Russian Romanticism (edited by Robert Reid), Aldershot: Gower, 1986, pp. 169-208.
• 'Soviet Responses to Doctor Zhivago', in From Pushkin to Palisandriia: Essays on the Russian Novel in Honour of Richard Freeborn (edited by Arnold McMillin), Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990, pp. 201-15.
• 'Introduction: Daniil Kharms, Black Miniaturist', in Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd: Essays and Materials, edited by Neil Cornwell, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991 (and New York: St. Martin's Press), pp. 3-21.
• 'Changing Places: Doctor Zhivago and the Russian Novel: a metacritical approach', in Studies in Poetics: Commemorative Volume. Krystyna Pomorska (1928-86), edited by Elena Semeka-Pankratov, Colombus, OH: Slavica, 1995, pp. 207-21.
• 'Gothic and its Origins East and West: Vladimir Odoevsky and Fitz-James O'Brien', in Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, edited by Valeria Tinkler-Villani and Peter Davidson, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995, pp. 117-28.
• 'Two Visionary Storytellers of 1894: R.L. Stevenson and Anton Chekhov', in Beauty and the Beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson and their Contemporaries, edited by Pieter Liebregts and Wim Tigges, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 171-85.
• 'Afterword' to reprinting of Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky, Russian Nights, translated by Olga Koshansky-Olienikov and Ralph E. Matlaw, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997, pp. 257-63.
• 'Literaturnost': Literature and the Market-place', in Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940, edited by Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 43-50.
• 'Vladimir Odoevskii and the Society Tale in the 1820s and 1830s', in The Society Tale in Russian Literature: from Odoevskii to Tolstoi, edited by Neil Cornwell, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998, pp. 9-19.
• 'Russian Gothic', 'The Fantastic' and 'The Grotesque', in The Handbook to Gothic Literature, edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1998, pp. 199-204, 264-65, 273.
• 'The Russian Novels', in The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art, edited by Susan Weissman, Glasgow: Critique Books, 1997, pp. 69-74.
• 'Notes on Fantastic/Gothic Elements in Nabokov's Despair', in Neo-Formalist Papers: Contributions to the Silver Jubilee Conference to Mark 25 years of the Neo-Formalist Circle, edited by Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998, pp. 168-80.
• 'Women Memoirists on Pasternak', in Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self-Perceptions, edited by Rosalind Marsh, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 1998, pp. 163-72.
• 'Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky', in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 198. Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose, edited by Christine A. Rydel, Detroit, Washington, D.C., London: Gale Research, 1999, pp. 221-43.
• 'Russian Gothic: An Introduction', in The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999, pp. 3-21.
• 'European Gothic', in A Companion to the Gothic, edited by David Punter, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 27-38.
• 'Cherty Daniila Kharmsa', in Poeziia i zhivopis?: Sbornik trudov pamiati N.I. Khardzhieva, Moscow: Iazyki Russkoi Kul'tury, 2000, pp. 619-28.:
• 'Paintings, Governesses, and "Publishing Scoundrels": Nabokov and Henry James', in Nabokov's World, vol. 2: Reading Nabokov, edited by Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin and Priscilla Meyer, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 96-116.
• 'European Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature', in European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760-1960, edited by Avril Horner, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 104-27.
• 'Pushkin and Odoevsky: the "Afro-Finnish" theme in Russian Gothic', in Empire and the Gothic: the Politics of Genre, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 69-87.
• 'Pushkin and Henry James: Secrets, Papers and Figures (The Queen of Spades, The Aspern Papers, and The Figure in the Carpet)', in Two Hundred Years of Pushkin, vol. 3: Pushkin's Legacy, edited by Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2004, pp. 193-208.
• 'The Absurd in Gogol and Gogol Criticism', Essays in Poetics, vol. 29, 2004, Gogol Special Issues, vol. 2, Aspects of Gogol, pp. 1-16.
• 'The Transition to English', in The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov, edited by Julian Connolly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 151-69.

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Journal Articles

• On-line journal: 'Intimations of Lo: Sirens, Joyce and Nabokov's Lolita', ZEMBLA [Nabokov studies website]: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/
• 'V.F. Odoyevsky's Ridiculous Dream About That?': themes and ideas in works by V.F. Odoyevsky, Dostoyevsky and Mayakovsky', Quinquereme - New Studies in Modern Languages (Bath), vol. 2, 1979, pp. 75-86 and 246-55.
• 'A Note on Aristidov's Mistresses in V.F. Odoyevsky's The Live Corpse', Quinquereme - New Studies in Modern Languages, vol. 3, 1980, pp. 118-20.
• 'The Principle of Distortion in Olesha's Envy', Essays in Poetics (Keele), vol. 5, no. 1, 1980, pp. 15-35.
• 'Translations of the Works of James Joyce in Eastern Europe: a checklist', Irish Slavonic Studies (Belfast), no. 2, 1981, pp. 9-15.
• 'Vladimir Voynovich and the Rules of the Game', Essays in Poetics, vol. 7, no. 1, 1982, pp. 84-100.
• 'Through the Clouds of Soviet Literature', The Crane Bag (Dublin), vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 17-33. Reprinted in The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, vol. 2 (1982-1985), Dublin, 1987.
• 'V.F. Odoyevsky's Russian Nights: Genre, Reception and Romantic Poetics', Essays in Poetics, vol. 8, no. 2, 1983, pp. 19-55.
• 'Belinsky and V.F. Odoyevsky', The Slavonic and East European Review (London), vol. 62, no. 1, 1984, pp. 6-24.
• 'A Bolshevik in Belfast: a neglected episode in the biography of Maxim Litvinov', Irish-Russian Contacts (Irish Slavonic Studies 5), Belfast, 1984, pp. 43-7.
• 'Some Russian Attitudes to James Joyce: the 1930s and since', Irish-Russian Contacts (Irish Slavonic Studies 5), Belfast, 1984, pp. 57-82.
• 'Roland Barthes: a man for all écritures', Essays in Poetics, vol. 10, no. 1, 1985, pp. 50-65.
• 'Utopia and Dystopia in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction: the contribution of V.F. Odoyevsky', in 1984: Visions of Dystopia. Renaissance and Modern Studies (Nottingham), vol. 28, 1984, pp. 59-71.
• 'Critical Approaches to the Literary Fantastic: Definitions, Genre, Import', Essays in Poetics, vol. 13, no. 1, 1988, pp. 1-45.
• 'Bely and Joyce: Half a Century On', Annali di Ca' Foscari (Venice), vol. 18, nos. 1-2, 1989, pp. 41-8.
• 'Vladimir Odoevsky and Russian Gothic', Rusistika, vol. 3, 1991, pp. 26-31.
• 'From December to August: or the reversals of history', Rusistika, vol. 4, 1991, pp. 19-21.
• 'James Joyce and his Russian Contemporaries', Coexistence (Glasgow), vol. 29, no. 1, 1992, pp. 55-72.
• 'At the Circus with Olesha and Siniavskii', The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 1993, pp. 1-13.
• 'More on Joyce and Russia: or Ulysses on the Moscow River', Joyce Studies Annual 1994, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994, pp. 175-86.
• 'James Joyce, Russian Culture and the Semiosphere', Russian Literature (Amsterdam), vol. 36-38, 1994, pp. 255-76.
• 'The Rudiments of Daniil Kharms: In Further Pursuit of the Red-Haired Man', The Modern Language Review, vol. 93, no. 1, 1998, pp. 133-45.
• 'Ghost Writers in the Sky (and elsewhere): Notes towards a Spectropoetics of Ghosts and Ghostliness', Gothic Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1999, pp. 156-68.
• 'The European "Nights" Tradition: Potocki and Odoevsky's Russian Nights', pp. 5-11, Vestnik Rossiiskogo Universiteta Druzhby Narodov. Seriia: Literaturovedenie. Zhurnalistika, vol. 5, Moscow, 2001, pp. 5-11.
• 'The European "Nights" Tradition: Potocki and Odoevsky's Russian Nights', Comparative Criticism: An Annual Journal, vol. 24, 2002, pp. 121-39.
• 'You've heard of the Count Saint-Germain ... in Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" and Far Beyond', New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 2002, Volume 36: Festschrift in honour of Arnold McMillin, pp. 49-66.
• 'Retsenziia na knigu [Recension of a Book]: Reference Guide to Russian Literature', Vestnik Rossiiskogo Universiteta Druzhby Narodov Seriia: Literaturovedenie. Zhurnalistika. Seriia: Literaturovedenie. Zhurnalistika, vol. 6, 2002 [published 2004], pp. 141-4.
• '"A Dorset Yokel's Knuckles": Thomas Hardy and Lolita', The Nabokovian, no. 54, Spring 2005, pp. 54-64.
• 'Ulysses and Lolita', James Joyce Broadsheet, no. 71, June 2005 [p. 1].

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Contributions to Encyclopedias include:

• 'Theatre of the Absurd', The Literary Encyclopedia ('Topics'): www.litencyc.com, posted January 2005 (4500 words).
• 'Absurd Prose', The Literary Encyclopedia ('Topics'): www.litencyc.com, posted March 2005 (2500 words).
• '(Soviet) Socialist Realism', The Literary Encyclopedia ('Topics'): www.litencyc.com, posted May 2005 (2500 words).

Forthcoming / In Press:

• 'The Musical-Artistic Story in Odoevsky and Pasternak' (paper given at 'Hostage of Eternity: An International Conference on Boris Pasternak', Stanford, May, 2004)
• 'First Loves and Last Rites: from Ivan Turgenev to John Banville' (paper prepared for international Turgenev conference, Oxford, September 2006)

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