Disrupted Idylls - Nature, Equality, and the Feminine in Sentimentalist Russian Women's Writing (Mariia Pospelova, Mariia Bolotnikova, and Anna Naumova)- With translations by Emily Lygo

The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular were fettered by a culture of feminisation strongly influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As Sentimentalism and its aesthetics began to give way to Romantic ideals, some provincial Russian women writers saw an opportunity to claim social equality, and to challenge traditional concepts of authorship and a view of women as mute and passive.

List of contents

Contents: Sentimentalist Gender Concepts: Responses to Sentimentalist Gender Conceptions - The Woman Writer as Interpreter of Creation: Mariia Pospelova - Criticism of Sentimentalist Conventions: Mariia Bolotnikova - Revisions of Sentimentalist Gender Concepts: Anna Naumova.

About the author

Ursula Stohler, University of Zurich, has a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK. She specialises in gender and transcultural studies, education, digital humanities, Czech literature and Russian studies, and has done research at universities in several countries as well as giving numerous talks.

Product details

• Authors: Ursula Stohler
• Assisted by: Wolf Schmid (Editor), Emily Lygo (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631668030
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66803-0
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 26 mm x 219 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Series: Slavische Literaturen
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies