Reinventing romantic poetry : Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century / Diana Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Diana.

Series:

Studies of the Harriman Institute.

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russian poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian poetry.

Romanticism--Russia.

Romanticism.

Russian poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Russia--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Rostopchina, Evdokii︠a︡, 1812-1858--Criticism and interpretation.

Rostopchina, Evdokii︠a︡.

Krestovskīĭ, V., 1824?-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Krestovskīĭ, V.

Pavlova, Karolina, 1807-1893--Criticism and interpretation.

Pavlova, Karolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

Poems in Russian in appendix.

Summary:

While poets such as Aleksander Pushkin worked within a male-centred Romantic aesthetic - the poet as bard or sexual conqueror; nature as mother or mistress; idealized woman as muse - Russian women attempted to reinvent conventions to express themselves as women and poets.

Contents:

Social conditions

Literary conventions

Gender and genre

Evdokiia Rostopchina

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia

Karolina Pavlova

Noncanonical men poets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269332

9780299191030

0299191036

9781282269330

128226933X

OCLC:

294959975