Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: new perspectives on women and gender in Russian literature
- PART I HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
- 2 Women in seventeenth-century Russian literature
- 3 Conflicts over gender and status in early nineteenth-century Russian literature: the case of Anna Bunina and her poem Padenie Faetona
- 4 Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770–1840)
- 5 Russian women writers of the nineteenth century
- 6 The ‘woman question’ of the 1860s, and the ambiguity of the ‘learned woman’
- 7 Carving out a career: women prose writers, 1885–1917, the biographical background
- 8 The fate of women writers in literature at the beginning of the twentieth century: ‘A. Mirè’, Anna Mar, Lidiia Zinov′eva-Annibal
- 9 Lidiia Zinov′eva-Annibal's The Singing Ass: a woman's view of men and Eros
- 10 Anastasiia Verbitskaia reconsidered
- 11 Soviet woman of the 1980s: self-portrait in poetry
- PART II THE PERSPECTIVE OF LITERARY CRITICISM
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
4 - Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770–1840)
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: new perspectives on women and gender in Russian literature
- PART I HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
- 2 Women in seventeenth-century Russian literature
- 3 Conflicts over gender and status in early nineteenth-century Russian literature: the case of Anna Bunina and her poem Padenie Faetona
- 4 Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770–1840)
- 5 Russian women writers of the nineteenth century
- 6 The ‘woman question’ of the 1860s, and the ambiguity of the ‘learned woman’
- 7 Carving out a career: women prose writers, 1885–1917, the biographical background
- 8 The fate of women writers in literature at the beginning of the twentieth century: ‘A. Mirè’, Anna Mar, Lidiia Zinov′eva-Annibal
- 9 Lidiia Zinov′eva-Annibal's The Singing Ass: a woman's view of men and Eros
- 10 Anastasiia Verbitskaia reconsidered
- 11 Soviet woman of the 1980s: self-portrait in poetry
- PART II THE PERSPECTIVE OF LITERARY CRITICISM
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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- Gender and Russian LiteratureNew Perspectives, pp. 75 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996