A History of Women's Writing in Russia

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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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