binary hierarchical oppositions, 49 , 54
blotting-books, 123 , 267 n. 38
Boileau, Nicholas: Art poétique, 59
Botkin, Mariia, 23
Botkin, Vasilii, 23
Botmer, Emilia-Eleonor, 23
Briusov, Valerii: and Pavlova, 141 ,
144 , 145
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Aurora
Leigh, 110
Bulgarin, Faddei, 89
bylina(folk epic), 243 n. 11
Byron, George Gordon, 59 , 62 , 63 ,
230 n. 19. Works: “The Corsair,”
63 , 73 ; Eastern Tales, 62 , 148 ; “The
Giaour,” 4
canonical poets: common social fac-
tors, 168 , 169 ; and eternal rele-
vance, 104–5
canonical status: and gender in Rus-
sian Romanticism, 8 ; and schol-
arly resources, 13
canon of Russian literature, 7 , 167 ,
173–74, 222 n. 15
canons: challenges to, 11–14; expan-
sions of, 12
Catherine II, 23
censorship: and Guber, 6 ; and
Khvoshchinskaia, 122 , 126 , 132 ;
and Russian writers, 19 , 132 ;
sexual-political, 132
censorship terror, 126
Chernyshevky, Nikolai, 100
civil service, and Russian men poets, 31
Clairmont, Claire: and Pavlova,
270 n. 11
classicism: and androcentrism, 31–33;
in Russia, 59
class-neutral aesthetic standards, 172
Corinna, 39 , 235 n. 6. See alsoKul’-
man, “Korinna”
cross-gendered poems, 41 , 46 , 147 ,
237 n. 26
Daszkiewicz, Cyprian, 141
Davidson, Lucretia Maria, 155 , 156
death: depiction of in women’s po-
etry, 15 , 17 , 77 ; and grammatical
gender, 247–48. See alsoelegy;
mourning and gender
death or marriage ending, 166
Decembrist Rebellion and poetry, 62 ,
95 , 97 , 106
Del’vig, Anton, 4 ; and Baratynsky, 34 ;
marriage and career, 23 ; and
Pushkin, 34 ; Severnye tsvety, 34.
Works: “Dscher’ khladna l’da!,”
50 ; “Luna,” 50 ; “Razgovor s ge-
niem,” 236 n. 15
Denis’eva, Elena, 23 , 91
descriptions of physical appearance
of Russian women poets:
Khvoshchinskaia, 116 ; Mordovt-
seva, 264 n. 15 ; Pavlova, 141 ,
271 n. 14 ; Rostopchina, 90–91
Dickinson, Emily, 45 , 124 , 136 ,
274 n. 38. Works: “Apparently
with no surprise,” 54 ; “I’m No-
body!,” 18 , 119
Dido-and-Aeneas convention, 61
divorce, Russia, 22
Dobroliubov, Nikolai, 110
domestic ideology, 23–27, 119 , 229 n. 9
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 119 , 121
dramatic monologues, 47
Dresden, 142 , 143
druzheskoe poslanie(friendly epistle,
verse epistle), 5 , 38 , 234 n. 1
Druzhinin, Aleksandr: “Zhenshchina-
pisatel’nitsa,” 25–26
duels, 31 , 161 , 165
Dumas, Alexandre, 95
duplicity, 18 , 110. See alsointerpretive
strategies
Durova, Nadezhda, 41 , 275 n. 38Elagina, Avdot’ia, 139–40, 141 ,
248 n. 43 ; and Zhukovsky, 140
elegy, 74–81; funerary, 77 , 248 n. 47 ;
gender norms, 75 , 79 , 81 ; and
mourning, 75–76. See also prichi-
tanie
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