A history of women's writing in Russia

Barker, Adele Marie, 1946- (Added Author). Gheith, Jehanne M. (Added Author).

Summary: A comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Contributors have addressed the surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.

Record details

ISBN: 051148593X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511485930 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0521572800 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780521572804 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780511116568 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 051111656X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511053757
ISBN: 0511053754
ISBN: 9780511157998
ISBN: 0511157991
ISBN: 9780511039737 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511039735 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 391 p.)
remote
electronic resource
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-379) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Women's image in Russian medieval literature / Rosalind McKenzie -- Sappho, Corinna, and Niobe: genres and personae in Russian women's writing, 1760-1820 / Catriona Kelly -- The inexperienced muse: Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century / Judith Vowles -- Women of the 1830s and 1850s: alternative periodizations / Jehanne Gheith -- "A particle of our soul": pre-Revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers / Mary Zirin -- The women of Russian Montparnasse (Paris, 1920-1940) / Catherine Ciepiela -- Women in Russian symbolism: beyond the algebra of love / Jenifer Presto -- The eastern path of exile: Russian women's writing in China / Olga Bakich, Carol Ueland -- Realist prose writers, 1881-1929 / Rosalind Marsh -- Women and gender in post-symbolist poetry and the Stalin era / Katherine Hodgson -- Writing the female body politic (1945-1985) / Beth Holmgren -- In their own words? Soviet women writers and the search for self / Anna Krylova -- Women's poetry since the sixties / Stephanie Sandler -- The persistence of memory: women's prose since the sixties / Adele Marie Barker -- Perestroika and post Soviet prose: from dazzle to dispersal / Helena Goscilo.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.