Gender and Russian Literature: New Perspectives

by Adaptation by Rosalind Marsh

• ISBN13: 9780521174947
• ISBN10: 0521174945
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of original essays by leading Western and Russian specialists gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia. It combines a study of the history and biography of previously neglected women writers with close readings of literary texts, demonstrating that although many Russian women writers have been unjustly disadvantaged and marginalized, their work contains much of interest for contemporary women readers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: new perspectives on women and gender in Russian literature

Historical and Biographical Perspectives

Women in seventeenth-century Russian literature

Conflicts over gender and status in early nineteenth-century Russian literature: the case of Anna Bunina and her Padenie faetona

Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770-1840)

Russian women writers of the nineteenth century

The 'woman question' of the 1860s, and the ambiguity of the 'learned woman'

Carving out a career: women prose writers, 1885-1920, the biographical background

The fate of women writers in literature at the beginning of the twentieth century: 'A. Mire'

Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal's 'The singing ass': a woman's view of men and Eros

Anastasiia Verbitskaia reconsidered

Soviet woman of the 1980s: self-portrait in poetry

The Perspective Of Literary Criticism

The silence of rebellion: women in the work of Leonid

Poor Liza: the sexual politics of

The crafting of a self: Lidiia Ginzburg's early journal

Voyeurism and ventriloquism: Anatolii Velichanskii's Podzemnaia nimfa

Thinking (self) in the poetry of Ol'ga Sedakova

Women's space and women's place in contemporary Russian fiction

Index

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