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Russian women's shorter fiction : an anthology, 1835-1860 / translated with an introduction by Joe Andrew.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Russian--Women authors--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Russian.
- Women authors.
- Genre:
- Short stories, Russian.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 469 pages : 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This anthology offers an introduction to the first major flowering of Russian women's writing between the years 1835 and 1860, introducing the reader to such significant figures as Elena Gun, Mariya Zhukova, Nadezhda Durova, and Avdotya Panaeva. Newly translated, the selections show the diversity of women's writing in the period, as well as the inevitably interconnected nature of theme and treatment among different authors.
- Contents:
- The ideal / Elena Gan
- Society's judgement / Elena Gan
- Extracts from Evenings by the Karpovka / Mariya Zhukova
- Baron Reichman / Mariya Zhukova
- The locket / Mariya Zhukova
- Self-sacrifice / Mariya Zhukova
- The sulphur spring / Nadezhda Durova
- On the way / Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
- The young lady of the steppes / Avdotya Panaeva
- A conversation after dinner / Nadezhda Sokhanskaya.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 019815884X
- OCLC:
- 34046344
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