A history of women's writing in Russia / edited by Adele Marie Barker and Jehanne M Gheith.

Other author Barker, Adele Marie, 1946-
Other author Gheith, Jehanne M.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxviii, 391 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Russian literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women--Soviet Union. --Intellectual life.
Women--Russia (Federation). --Intellectual life.
Women and literature--Soviet Union.
Women and literature--Russia (Federation).

Contents Women's image in Russian medieval literature / Rosalind McKenzie -- Sappho, Corinna, and Niobe: genres and personae in Russian women's writing, 1760-1820 / Catriona Kelly -- The inexperienced muse: Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century / Judith Vowles -- Women of the 1830s and 1850s: alternative periodizations / Jehanne Gheith -- "A particle of our soul": pre-Revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers / Mary Zirin -- The women of Russian Montparnasse (Paris, 1920-1940) / Catherine Ciepiela -- Women in Russian symbolism: beyond the algebra of love / Jenifer Presto -- The eastern path of exile: Russian women's writing in China / Olga Bakich, Carol Ueland -- Realist prose writers, 1881-1929 / Rosalind Marsh -- Women and gender in post-symbolist poetry and the Stalin era / Katherine Hodgson -- Writing the female body politic (1945-1985) / Beth Holmgren -- In their own words? Soviet women writers and the search for self / Anna Krylova -- Women's poetry since the sixties / Stephanie Sandler -- The persistence of memory: women's prose since the sixties / Adele Marie Barker -- Perestroika and post Soviet prose: from dazzle to dispersal / Helena Goscilo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-379) and index.
LCCN 2001035693
ISBN0521572800