Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

capital in the lives of canonical and noncanonical men poets. Gender, however, also appears to have been an important component ...

teur whose entire literary output consisted of six povesti(tales). Pavlova is described in these encyclopedias as “Pavlov’s wife ...

approached poetry differently from the men, they also responded to and polemicized with men’s poetry. A comparative approach, th ...

indication that she took herself more seriously as a poet than the lan- guage of her poem might at first suggest. Similarly, our ...

and postcolonial studies—many previously unknown women writers have become “known,” appearing on course reading lists, in anthol ...

embody, and whose interests they serve” (Canons and Contexts,102–5). While, as we shall see, the “formalist virtues” may be foun ...

such issues, and although, I hasten to add, I do not question the impor- tance of men writers of the Golden Age, this study to a ...

that literary standards are not class, race, or gender neutral, but rather validate the experiences and tastes—defined as “unive ...

hardboiled detective stories, Westerns, or “action” movies appeal to men because they have a more focused, forward thrust. It mi ...

ets to express a more complex and uncomfortable relation with God and nature than did their male contemporaries (see chapter 2 ) ...

walked a sublime path... described in terms of male sexual energies” (Gender and Genius, 103 ). “To be... a ‘genius,’” Battersby ...

pisat’ zhenshchiny” (How women should write, see chapter 4 ), and many others. Still another interpretive strategy is Sandra Gil ...

important, as the balance and harmony of a work’s elements, the inner logic of its structure and style. “A perfectly unified wor ...

1 .Social Conditions The social conditions that these poets shared included Russian women’s educational, economic, legal, and li ...

grounds for a divorce or annulment, which, in any case, were virtually impossible to obtain (Freeze, 743 ). In cases of life-thr ...

1840 s, but published her first and only book of poetry in 1877 , after her second husband abandoned her. Only the unmarried poe ...

God, essential learning [neobkhodimye nauki], useful handiwork and home economics [domashnee khoziaistvo]” (Likhacheva, Material ...

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men, responds only to the narrator. Unfortunately, at this point the nar- rator awakens as the first woman writer’s reading ends ...

rather than an art while complacently noting that their “pure and irre- proachable” morality resulted in monotonous poetry.^17 I ...