by Jehanne Gheith
Northwestern University Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-8101-1714-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2173-7
Library of Congress Classification PG3418.T75Z67 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.733

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Though among the most prominent writers in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century, Evgeniia Tur (1815-92) and V. Krestovskii (1820-89) are now little known. By looking in depth at these writers, their work, and their historical and aesthetic significance, Jehanne M. Gheith shows how taking women's writings into account transforms traditional understandings of the field of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Gheith's analysis of these writers' biographies, prose, and criticism intervenes in debates about the Russian literary tradition in general, Russian women's writing in particular, and feminist criticism on female authors and authority as it has largely been developed in and for Western contexts.