Hartley , Janet M. Shaw , Denis J. B. Magic, Texts and Travel: Homage to a Scholar, Will Ryan (review)
Journal: The Slavonic and East European Review
Year: 2021

SEER, 99, 4, OCTOBER 2021 760 Hartley, Janet M. and Shaw, Denis J. B. (eds). Magic, Texts and Travel: Homage to a Scholar, Will Ryan. Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, London, 2021. x + 388 pp. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Publications of Will Ryan. Index. £25.00 (paperback). According to all its outward signs, this book should make the reviewer wary. The idiosyncratic combination of topics listed in its main title hardly suggests coherence. The subtitle, baldly advertising th