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

isons might give us a more complete and three-dimensional view of Ro-

manticism.

These first chapters have analyzed the commonalties among these

women poets: historical and social circumstances, literary conventions,

practices, and genres. In the next three chapters we shall change our

focus to consider the individual achievements of three of the most

significant of these women poets—Rostopchina, Khvoshchinskaia, and

Pavlova—and shall examine the varied and pervasive effects of gender

ideology on their lives, work, and literary reputations.

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