Russian Women''s Shorter Fiction - An Anthology 1835-1860

Zusatztext These works represent a modest treasure-trove of hitherto barely known secondary writing of the period and! at the same time! a significant contribution to our awareness of the history of women's writing in Russia. Klappentext This anthology offers an introduction to the first major flowering of Russian women's writing between 1835 and 1860. The work produced during this period, like nearly all writing by Russian women, has been, until very recently, 'hidden from history'. None of the ten stories have been translated before and several have not been republished since their original publication in the nineteenth century. These works bear witness to the great, but hitherto neglected, contribution made by women to the overall development of Russian fiction in its formative period. The selection shows the diversity of women's writing in the period, as well as the inevitably interconnected nature of theme and treatment among the different authors. It will demonstrate to the reader, specialist and amateur alike, that women's writing in nineteenth-century Russia is an area that certainly repays further exploration. Zusammenfassung This anthology offers an introduction to the first major flowering of Russian women's writing between 1835 and 1860. The work produced during this period, like nearly all writing by Russian women, has been, until very recently, 'hidden from history'. None of the ten stories have been translated before and several have not been republished since their original publication in the nineteenth century. These works bear witness to the great contribution made by women to the overall development of Russian fiction in its formative period. The selection shows the diversity of women's writing in the period, as well as the inevitably interconnected nature of theme and treatment among different authors. It will demonstrate to the reader, specialist and amateur alike, that women's writing in nineteenth-century Russia is an area that certainly repays further exploration....

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• Authors: Joe Andrew, Joe (Professor and Head of Russian Andrew
• Assisted by: Joe Andrew (Editor), Joe Professor Andrew (Editor), Joe Andrew (Translation), Joe Professor Andrew (Translation), Andrew Joe (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.1996
• EAN: 9780198158844
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815884-4
• No. of pages: 486
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form