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

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accommodation and resistance: noncanonical men poets, 172; women poets, 28–30 Aesopian language, 19. See also censorship Akhmatova, Anna: “Kogda ia noch’iu zhudu ee prikhoda,” 43 Aleksandra Fedorovna, Empress, 94, 95, 100 Alexander I, 141 Alexander II, 94 ambivalence, 18–19, 110. See also interpretive strategies Anacreon, 31; and Kul’man, 32, 42; and Pushkin, 50 anacreontic odes, 31–32, 38 antimuses, 42, 67, 164. See also muses, male Apollo, 43, 44, 247n. 42 archetypes, Romantic, 83 Aristotle, 16, 57, 242n. 2 Bacchic songs. See vakkhicheskie pesni Bakunina, Praskov’ia, 4, 5; depiction of nature, 52–53; depiction of women, 28–29; male muse, 42, 236n. 14; pseudonym, 45; and Zrazhevskaia, 29. Works: “Ballada ,” 29, 181; “Dva dnia,” 237n. 26; “Moi chertenok,” 42, 179–80; “Poslanie k drugu,” 236n. 14; “Prolog,” 25, 182–87; “Siialo utro obnovlen’em,” 18, 78, 235n. 11 ballad, 70–74; and epic, 70, 71; and gender norms, 71–72, 246n. 35; revival, 59, 70–71 Baratynsky, Evgenii, 4; and Del’vig, 34; Elagina, 140; marriage and career, 23; and Pavlova, 11, 67– 68; and Zhukovsky, 34. Works: “Epigramma,” 24–25; “Kladbishche ,” 11; “Nalozhnitsa,” 11; “Osen’,” 10; “Poslednii poet,” 38; “Sovet,” 24–25; “Tsyganka,” 11. See also Pavlova, Kadril’ bards, 39, 41, 71, 236n. 12 Batiushkov, Konstanin: “Vakkhanka,” 32–33 Belinsky, Vissarion: and Batiushkov, 32; and domestic ideology, 24; and Kol’tsov, 34, 170, 173, 279n. 12; and Lermontov, 34; and Mil’keev, 173; and Pavlova, 142, 272n. 19; and Pushkin, 34; and Rostopchina , 45, 93, 97, 101, 256n. 28, 260n. 50; and Tepolov, 17, 85; and women’s genius, 18; and women’s writing, 35; and Zhadovskaia, 35 Belle dame sans merci, 73, 83 Berg, Nikolai: and Pavlova, 139; and Rostopchina, 90 Biblioteka dlia chteniia, 6, 33, 141, 170 Biblioteka poeta series, 9, 137, 168, 170 297 Index binary hierarchical oppositions, 49, 54 blotting-books, 123, 267n. 38 Boileau, Nicholas: Art poétique, 59 Botkin, Mariia, 23 Botkin, Vasilii, 23 Botmer, Emilia-Eleonor, 23 Briusov, Valerii: and Pavlova, 141, 144, 145 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Aurora Leigh, 110 Bulgarin, Faddei, 89 bylina (folk epic), 243n. 11 Byron, George Gordon, 59, 62, 63, 230n. 19. Works: “The Corsair,” 63, 73; Eastern Tales, 62, 148; “The Giaour,” 4 canonical poets: common social factors , 168, 169; and eternal relevance , 104–5 canonical status: and gender in Russian Romanticism, 8; and scholarly resources, 13 canon of Russian literature, 7, 167, 173–74, 222n. 15 canons: challenges to, 11–14; expansions of, 12 Catherine II, 23 censorship: and Guber, 6; and Khvoshchinskaia, 122, 126, 132; and Russian writers, 19, 132; sexual-political, 132 censorship terror, 126 Chernyshevky, Nikolai, 100 civilservice,andRussianmenpoets,31 Clairmont, Claire: and Pavlova, 270n. 11 classicism: and androcentrism, 31–33; in Russia, 59 class-neutral aesthetic standards, 172 Corinna, 39, 235n. 6. See also Kul’man , “Korinna” cross-gendered poems, 41, 46, 147, 237n. 26 Daszkiewicz, Cyprian, 141 Davidson, Lucretia Maria, 155, 156 death: depiction of in women’s poetry , 15, 17, 77; and grammatical gender, 247–48. See also elegy; mourning and gender death or marriage ending, 166 Decembrist Rebellion and poetry, 62, 95, 97, 106 Del’vig, Anton, 4; and Baratynsky, 34; marriage and career, 23; and Pushkin, 34; Severnye tsvety, 34. Works: “Dscher’ khladna l’da!,” 50; “Luna,” 50; “Razgovor s geniem ,” 236n. 15 Denis’eva, Elena, 23, 91 descriptions of physical appearance of Russian women poets: Khvoshchinskaia, 116; Mordovtseva , 264n. 15; Pavlova, 141, 271n. 14; Rostopchina, 90–91 Dickinson, Emily, 45, 124, 136, 274n. 38. Works: “Apparently with no surprise,” 54; “I’m Nobody !,” 18, 119 Dido-and-Aeneas convention, 61 divorce, Russia, 22 Dobroliubov, Nikolai, 110 domestic ideology, 23–27, 119, 229n. 9 Dostoevsky, Fedor, 119, 121 dramatic monologues, 47 Dresden, 142, 143 druzheskoe poslanie (friendly epistle, verse epistle), 5, 38, 234n. 1 Druzhinin, Aleksandr: “Zhenshchinapisatel ’nitsa,” 25–26 duels, 31, 161, 165 Dumas, Alexandre, 95 duplicity, 18, 110. See also interpretive strategies Durova, Nadezhda, 41, 275n. 38 Elagina, Avdot’ia, 139–40, 141, 248n. 43; and Zhukovsky, 140 elegy, 74–81; funerary, 77, 248n. 47; gender norms, 75, 79, 81; and mourning, 75–76. See also prichitanie Engel’gardt, Anstasiia, 23 298 Index epic, 57, 60–62; gender norms, 60–61. See also bylina; geroicheskaia epopeia; poema epic hero, 61, 243n. 13 Evropeets, 140 excerpts from a narrative poem. See otryvki iz poemy exclusions of women from male institutions , 30–37 Fedorovna, Nastas’ia, 22, 221n. 11 Fedotov, Pavel...