Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1. Social Conditions 21 2. Literary Conventions 38 3. Gender and Genre 57 4. Evdokiia Rostopchina 88 5. Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia 112 6. Karolina Pavlova 137 7. In Conclusion: Noncanonical Men Poets 167 Appendix 177 Notes 219 Bibliography 281 Index 297 vii ...