Russian Women's Shorter Fiction An Anthology, 1835-1860 [Hardcover]

This anthology offers an introduction to the first major flowering of Russian women's writing between the years 1835 and 1860, introducing the reader to such significant figures as Elena Gun, Mariya Zhukova, Nadezhda Durova, and Avdotya Panaeva. Newly translated, the selections show the diversity of women's writing in the period, as well as the inevitably interconnected nature of theme and treatment among different authors.

Commendable for their accuracy, the translations capture stylistically the aura of a bygone era and an ethods remote from contemporary concerns and values....A welcome addition to the expanding stock of Russian women's writing in translation. --Choice

By making these works available to an English-speaking audience, Joe Andrew has provided a valuable service. The collection not only offers a compelling view of the way patriarchal power affected women's lives, it provides engaging models of the ways in which women tried to cope with and, upon occasion, even to resist that power. The anthology will prove useful in courses which survey nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as in courses whih focus on women and gender issues in Russian culture. --Slavic and East European Journal