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

passed for the “reception” of her work more accurately may be charac-

terized as sexual harassment.^61 Rostopchina’s poetry deserves a fresh

consideration on its own terms, and this includes reading it with the

same respect for Rostopchina’s “concerns, experiences, and formal de-

vices” that scholars automatically accord her male contemporaries.

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