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

Rather, the speaker struggles with the polarization that her society creates in her between two of her roles: the poet (“at a bo ...

notebook before sending it to Rostopchina with a letter requesting that she fill it with her poetry. In the 1856–57edition of he ...

formal devices of women writers” discussed in the introduction (Schwe- ickart, “Reading Ourselves,” 29 ). For example, as sugges ...

passed for the “reception” of her work more accurately may be charac- terized as sexual harassment.^61 Rostopchina’s poetry dese ...

5 .Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia While Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia (1824–89) has been recognized for the novels and stories she wrote un ...

educated and fluent in French, which she taught her children. Khvoshchinskaia had three younger sisters and a brother. One siste ...

h (A black book of bright ideas From the dark little head of my daughter; With her original talent already acknowledged, Write, ...

sky household with that of the Brontës, because in both cases three sis- ters, living in provincial isolation, wrote and shared ...

ininity was constructed at the time. As we shall see, that construction has changed somewhat, indicating, as some scholars have ...

Khvoshchinskaia’s most often republished poem, appearing at least seven times, is “Net, ia ne nazovu obmanom” (No, I will not ca ...

and queer theorists, who argue that homosexuality as a “new specifi- cation of individuals” (Foucault, History of Sexuality, 1 : ...

disabuse the woman, but when it eventually became necessary to do so, the woman refused to believe she had not been writing to a ...

an article with an invented name” (Bykov, Siluety dalekogo proshlogo, 186 ). Khvoshchinskaia tried to prevent articles about her ...

Between 1847 and 1859 Zotov published more than eighty of Khvosh- chinskaia’s poems. Interestingly, Praskov’ia Khvoshchinskaia d ...

that Zotov did publish (fewer than half the poems she sent him) he re- wrote without her permission, continuing to do so over he ...

handwriting) still exist, one comprising 197 poetic works, the other 9 , both located in RGALI, the Russian State Archive of Lit ...

notebook, published in Panteon,no. 2 [Feb. 1855 ]) by changing in line 3 “Mezhdu kartinami, statuiami” (Between the pictures and ...

Examples of many such changes may be seen in the published ver- sion of “Druz’ia, vam istinno, vam shchedro zhizn’ dana” (no. 76 ...

Published version:
,    ,   ?... ... #   . h (What is it, or not?... ... And he sails on.) Zotov made li ...

[........................] Her work in front of her on the window... [...] She looks as if she would say, “They’re having a real ...