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Record Nr.

UNINA9910773101403321

Autore

Stohler Ursula

Titolo

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 / Wolf Schmid, Emily Lygo, Ursula Stohler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M, : PH02, 2016

ISBN

9783653059274

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.) : , EPDF

Collana

Slavische Literaturen ; 47

Soggetti

Literary studies: general

Cultural studies

Gender studies: women

Sociology & anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.