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

Author: Greene, Diana
Additional Titles: Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
Copyright Date: ©2004
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages).

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Studies of the Harriman Institute

Language Note

Poems in Russian in appendix.

Contents

Social conditions -- Literary conventions -- Gender and genre -- Evdokiia Rostopchina -- Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia -- Karolina Pavlova -- Noncanonical men poets.

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.

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ISBN

9780299191030 (electronic bk.)
0299191036 (electronic bk.)
0299191001 (cloth)
9780299191009 (cloth)
0299191044 (pbk.)
9780299191047 (pbk.)
9786612269332
6612269332

Bibliography Note

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

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