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

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epic, 57 , 60–62; gender norms, 60–61.
See also bylina; geroicheskaia
epopeia; poema
epic hero, 61 , 243 n. 13
Evropeets, 140
excerpts from a narrative poem. See
otryvki iz poemy
exclusions of women from male insti-
tutions, 30–37


Fedorovna, Nastas’ia, 22 , 221 n. 11
Fedotov, Pavel, 4 , 168 , 169 , 171–72,
221 n. 13 ; and Krylov, 170. Works:
“K moim chitaleliam,” 172 ,
241 n. 39 ; “Svatovstvo maiora,”
172
female female impersonation, 19 , 110.
See alsointerpretive strategies
femininity, construction of, 115 –16
Fet, Afanasii, 4 , 13 , 278 n. 3 ; marriage
and career, 23 ; and Pavlova,
273 n. 27 ; and Turgenev, 34.
Works: “Eshche vesny dushistoi
nega,” 51 ; “Glub’ nebes opiat’
iasna,” 51 ; “Kak maiskii golu-
bookii zefir,” 51 ; “Na smert’ Miti
Botkina,” 77
folk epic. See bylina
folk genres, 59 , 60. See alsoballad;
bylina; prichitanie
formalist virtues, 12 , 20
frame narratives, 129 , 131 , 161
Freud, Sigmund, 75 , 76
friendly epistle. See druzheskoe poslanie
Fuks, Aleksandra, 4 , 5 , 225 n. 36.
Works: “Grecheskaia skazka,”
17 ; Knizhna Khabiba, 66 ; Osno-
vanie goroda Kazani, 66 , 245 n. 24 ;
“Razgovor s muzoiu,” 43
funeral laments, 79. See also prichi-
tanie


Garelina, Liubov’, 4 , 5 , 45 ; reception,
81. Works: “Bezumnaia,” 48 ;
“Mama! Chto ty vse
zvdykhaesh’?,” 73 ; “Molisia obo
mne,” 55


Gay, Delphine (Mme, de Giradin),
110 , 155 , 156 , 236 n. 13
gender, 220 n. 6
gender ideology, 86 , 90 , 96
gender-neutral aesthetic standards,
19–20, 86–87, 167
gender norms, 83 , 112–14; and genre,
58. See alsoballad; elegy; epic;
romanticheskaia poema
generic subtitles, 63–64, 67 , 68
generic titles, 60 , 76
genius, 17–18; as muse, 42 , 236 n. 15
genre, 57–58; and class, 58 ; and gen-
der, 57–87, 148–49; neoclassical,
59 ; and race, 58 ; Russian Roman-
tic, 59–60. See alsoballad; elegy;
epic; gender norms; romantich-
eskaia poema
genre anxiety, 61 , 63 , 66–67, 72 , 77
Gerbel’, Nikolai, 130–31
geroicheskaia epopeia(heroic verse
epic), 61–62
God, 27 , 38 , 41 , 54–55; in Bakunina,
18 , 237 n. 26 ; in Khvoshchinskaia,
126 ; in Pavlova, 154 , 156 , 158 ,
159 , 163–64; in Rostopchina,
256 n. 28 ; in Southey, 150–51; and
women in the Bible, 235 n. 10
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 141 , 170
Gogol’, Nikolai, 89–90
Golden Age of Russian literature, 5 ,
13 , 14 , 173–74; eclipse of, and
end of poetry, 135 , 138 , 257 n. 31 ,
269 n. 50
gothic tale, 69 , 246 n. 28
Gotovtseva, Anna, 4 , 5 , 34 ; and
Bartenev, 235 n. 7 ; and depictions
of nature, 52 ; marriage and ca-
reer, 22 ; and Pushkin, 29 ,
230 n. 24 ; reception, 29 ; sexual-
ization, 231 n. 24 ; signature, 45 ;
and Viazemsky, 35 , 45 , 231 n. 24.
Works: “A. S. P.,” 18 ; “K N. N.,”
46 ; “Odinochestvo,” 46 , 237 n. 26
Gouges, Olympe de, 86
government-run boarding schools.
See instituty

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