A History of Women's Writing in Russia

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Edited by Adele Marie Barker and Jehanne M. Gheith

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published December 2001, 448 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521572800

A History of Women's Writing in Russia traces comprehensively the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. 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, looking at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and re-assesing their relationship to the dominant male tradition.

Contributors: Adele Barker, Jehanne Gheith, Rosalind McKenzie, Catriona Kelley, Judith Vowles, Mary Zirin, Catherine Ciepiela, Jenifer Presto, Olga Bakich, Carol Ueland, Rosalind Marsh, Katherine Hodgson, Beth Holmgren, Anna Krylova, Stephanie Sandler, Helena Goscilo

Contents

Introduction--Adele Barker and Jehanne Gheith
1. Women's image in Russian medieval literature--Rosalind McKenzie
2. Genres in Russian women's writing, 1760-1820--Catriona Kelly
3. Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century--Judith Vowles
4. Women of the 1830s and 1850s--Jehanne Gheith
5. Pre-Revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers--Mary Zirin
6. The women of Russian Montparnasse--Catherine Ciepiela
7. Women in Russian symbolism--Jenifer Presto
8. 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. Soviet women writers and the search for self--Anna Krylova
13. Women's poetry since the sixties--Stephanie Sandler
14. Women's prose since the sixties--Adele Barker
15. Perestroika and post soviet Prose--Helena Goscilo.