Finding the Middle Ground: Krestovskii, Tur, and the Power of Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century Russian Women's Prose

Contents

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on Sources xix Introduction 3 Chapter One Evgeniia Tur: Biography of a Female Authoress 29 Chapter Two Biography of a Pseudonym: The Case of “V. Krestovskii” 52 Chapter Three Women on the Woman Question: Evgeniia Tur as Critic 83 Chapter Four A Pseudonym’s Criticism: The Identities and Distances of the “Woman Author” 104 Chapter Five Reconfiguring the Social: The Fiction of Evgeniia Tur 129 Chapter Six “V. Krestovskii,” Writer of the Fifties 156 Concluding Possibilities 186 Notes 191 Contents Selected Bibliography 271 Index 297 ...