A History of Women's Writing in Russia
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- Editors:
- Adele Marie Barker, University of Arizona
- Jehanne M. Gheith, Duke University, North Carolina
- Date Published: July 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521572804
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A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.
Read more- A fully comprehensive overview in English of women's writing in Russia from the Middle Ages to the modern era
- Essays by leading scholars, covering the development of women's writing
- Includes guides to further reading and bibliographical guide to women writers and their works
Awards
- Winner of the The Heldt Book Prize Committee of American Women in Slavic Studies for the best book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies in 2003
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'A History of Women's Writing in Russia marks a highpoint in Russian studies … A History of Women's Writing in Russia lays the foundations of a new, comprehensive literary history inclusive of both male and female discourses. Ultimately, this book is going to become a 'classic' for its significant contribution to a better understanding of not only Russian women's writing, but of Russian literature as a whole.' Journal of European Studies
See more reviewsReview of the hardback: 'The editors and authors have done a superb job, and Cambridge University Press has again demonstrated its pivotal role in shaping academic thought.' Slavonica
Review of the hardback: ' … very important contribution, not only to the history of Russian women writers, but of Russian literature tout court.' Slavonic and East European Review
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- Date Published: July 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521572804
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 161 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.813kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Adele Barker and Jehanne M Gheith
1. Women's image in Russian medieval literature Rosalind McKenzie
2. Sappho, Corinna and Niobe: genres and personae in Russian women's writing, 1760–1820 Catriona Kelly
3. The inexperienced muse: Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century Judith Vowles
4. Women of the 1830s and 1850s: alternative periods Jehanne Gheith
5. 'A particle of ourself': pre-Revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers Mary Zirin
6. The women of Russian Montparnasse, Paris, 1920–1940 Catherine Ciepiela
7. Women in Russian symbolism: beyond the albegra of love Jenifer Presto
8. The Eastern path of exile: Russian women's writing in China Olga Bakich and Carol Ueland
9. Realist prose writers, 1881–1929 Rosalind Marsh
10. Women and gender in post-symbolist poetry and the Stalin era Katherine Hodgson
11. Writing the female body politic (1945–1985) Beth Holmgren
12. In their own words: Soviet women writers and the search for self Anna Krylova
13. Women's poetry since the sixties Stephanie Sandler
14. The persistence of memory: women's prose since the sixties Adele Barker
15. Perestroika and post Soviet prose: from dazzle to dispersal Helena Goscilo.
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