30 .In the West, the recovery of Pavlova started with Munir Sendich’s dis-
sertation “The Life and Works of Karolina Pavlova” and his subsequent series
of articles about her work. Barbara Heldt first put Pavlova into a feminist criti-
cal context in the introduction to her translation—the first—of Pavlova’s
Dvoinaia zhizn’(A Double Life) in 1979. See also Susanne Fusso and Alexander
Lehrman, eds., Essays on Karolina Pavlova (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univer-
sity Press, 2001 ). Soviet editions of Pavlova: Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,ed.
N. Kovarskii (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel’ 1939 );Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,
ed. Pavel Gromov; and Stikhotvoreniia,ed. E. N. Lebedev (Moskva: Sovetskaia
Rossiia, 1985 ). For Soviet Pavlova criticism, see chapter 6.
In the West Helena Goscilo first translated and introduced Rostopchina’s
“Chin i den’gi” (“Rank and Money,” in Russian and Polish Women’s Fiction,ed. He-
lena Goscilo [Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1985 ], 50–84). So-
viet editions of Rostopchina: E. P. Rostopchina: Stikhotvoreniia, proza, pis’ma
( 1986 ); Talisman( 1987 ); and Schastlivaia zhenshchina, ed. A. M. Ranchin (Moskva:
Izd.-vo Pravda, 1991 ).
Soviet editions of Zhadovskaia are Izbrannye stikhotvoreniiaand V. A.
Blagovo, Poeziia i lichnost’ Iu. V. Zhadovskoi.
For Teplova, V. E. Vatsuro, “Zhizn’ i poeziia Nadezhdy Teplovoi,” 16–43.
More generally, many long-forgotten Russian women writers appear in Niko-
laev’s multivolume Russkie pisateli 1800–1917: biograficheskii slovar’.
In the West, some of the earliest works of recovery were Russian Literature Tri-
quarterly 9 ( 1974 ); Goscilo, Russian and Polish Women’s Fiction;Heldt, Terrible Per-
fection;Andrew, Women in Russian Literature;Ledkovsky, Rosenthal, and Zirin,
Dictionary of Russian Women Writers;Kelly, History of Russian Women’s Writing;
Catriona Kelly, ed., An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777–1992(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1994 ).
31 .Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
(New York: Doubleday, 1967 ). On the sexual, racial, and class politics of canons,
see Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them(Boston: Rout-
ledge & Kegan Paul, 1982 ), and her Mothers of the Novel: One Hundred Good
Women Novelists before Jane Austen(New York: Pandora, 1986 ); Alice Walker, In
Search of Our Mother’s Gardens(San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983 );
Robert von Hallberg, ed., Canons(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983 );
Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790–
1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 ); Catherine Belsey and Jane
Moore, eds., The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Crit-
icism(Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1989 ); and
Berenice Caroll, “The Politics of ‘Originality’: Women and the Class System of
the Intellect,” Journal of Women’s History 2 , no. 2 (fall 1990 ): 136–63.
32 .On the definition of the Pushkin pleiad, see Leighton,Russian Romanti-
cism, 16 , and John Mersereau, “The Nineteenth Century,” in The Cambridge His-
tory of Russian Literature,ed. Charles Moser (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1992 ), 143. For Lermontov’s encyclopedia, see Lermontovskaia entsiklope-
diia, ed. V. A. Manuilov.
Although Soviet scholars generally ignored Fet’s unprogressive views on pol-
itics, they deplored Pavlova’s much less conservative views as a sign of her ir-
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