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

Notes

Introduction

1. For example, D. S. Mirsky argues that Russian poetry of the Golden Age
   was not Romantic (History of Russian Literature, 73 ). L. G. Leighton describes
   how Soviet scholars reduced the Russian Romantic Movement to the years
   1816–25for ideological reasons (“Romanticism,” in Handbook of Russian Litera-
   ture,ed. Victor Terras, 372 ). An essay by John Mersereau is assertively titled
   “Yes, Virginia, There Was a Russian Romantic Movement” (in The Ardis Anthol-
   ogy of Russian Romanticism,ed. Christine Rydel (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1984 ),
   511–17).
   2 .On Russian Romanticism: L. G. Leighton, Russian Romanticism: Two Essays
   (Mouton: The Hague, 1975 ); Brown, History of Russian Literature;Rudolf
   Neuhauser, The Romantic Age in Russian Literature: Poetic and Esthetic Norms: An
   Anthology of Original Texts (1800–1850)(München: Otto Sagner, 1975 ); Sigrid
   McLaughlin, “Russia: Romaniceskij - Romanticeskij - Romantizm,” in ‘Romantic’
   and Its Cognates: The European History of a Word,ed. Hans Eichner (Toronto: Uni-
   versity of Toronto Press, 1972 ), 418–74; Wellek, “Concept of ‘Romanticism,’” 147.


2. For example, Marlon Ross writes, “Romanticism is historically a mascu-
   line phenomenon” (“Romantic Quest and Conquest,” 29 ).
   On the problematic aspects of Romanticism for women, see Gilbert and
   Gubar, introduction to Shakespeare’s Sisters,xxi; Diane Long Hoeveler, Romantic
   Androgyny: The Woman Within(University Park: Pennsylvania State University
   Press, 1979 ); Homans, Women Writers and Poetic Identity41–103; Susan Levin,
   Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
   Press, 1987 ); Mellor, Romanticism and Gender;Mellor, Romanticism and Feminism,
   especially Alan Richardson’s “Romanticism and the Colonization of the Femi-
   nine,” 13–25; Tayler and Luria, “Gender and Genre”; Ross, Contours of Masculine
   Desire;Feldman and Kelley, Romantic Women Writers;Wolfson, “Romanticism
   and Gender,” 385–96;. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, eds.,
   Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception(Lexington: Uni-
   versity of Kentucky, 1999 ).


3. Moore, introduction to Selected Poems, 1. For similar reasons it would have

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