A History of Russian Women's Writing: 1820-1992

Kelly, Catriona; Catriona Kelly

ISBN 10: 0198158726 / ISBN 13: 9780198158721

Published by Clarendon Press/Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, UK, New York, et al., 1994

About this Item

497+ xii pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: Russian women's writing is now attracting enormous interest both in the West and in Russia itself. This is the first one-volume history of the subject to appear in any language in modern times. Written from a bold feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual analysis. Sections on women's writing in the periods 1820-1880, 1881-1917, 1917-1954, and 1953-1992 are followed by essays on individual writers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including rare literary journals and almanacs, Catriona Kelly's account shows familiar figures such as Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Tolstoya in a radical new context and brings to light a colorful gallery of fascinating but neglected writers including Elena Gan, Nadezhda Teffi, Natalya Baranskaya, and Nina Sadur. This is an indispensable source for readers and students of women's writing, and for all those concerned with women's history, the history of feminism, and Russian literature in general (From: Amazon).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of Russian Women's Writing: 1820-1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press/Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, UK, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198158726
• ISBN 13: 9780198158721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: 'The Morning of A Landowner's Wife', 1823 by Alexei Venetsianov (Jacket Illustration)
• Edition: © Catriona Kelly 1994
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New

About this title

Synopsis

Russian women's writing is now attracting great interest both in the West and in Russia itself. This is the first one-volume history of the subject to appear in any language in modern times. Written from a feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual analysis. Sections on women's writing in the periods 1820-1880, 1881-1917, 1917-1954 and 1953-1992 are followed by essays on individual writers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including rare literary journals and almanacs, Catriona Kelly's account shows familiar figures such as Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Tolstoya in a radical new context, and brings to light a gallery of fascinating but neglected writers including Elena Gan, Nadezhda Teffi, Natalya Baranskaya, and Nina Sadur. The text is supported by quotations from the Russian, all with English translations. Complemented by Dr Kelly's "Anthology of Russian Women's Writing 1777-1992" (also available from OUP), this is a source for readers and students of women's writing, and for all those concerned with women's history, the history of feminism and Russian literature in general. Catriona Kelly is the author of "Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre", editor of "Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature" (with Michael Makin and David Shepherd), and has translated Leonid Borodin's "The Third Truth" and Sergei Kaledin's "The Humble Cemetery".

About the Authors

About the Author:
Both an author and a translator, Catriona Kelly is a British Academy Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.


Catriona Kelly is a Lecturer in Russian Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.