What does it mean to be a woman writer. Models of "the Self" in Alexandra Zrazhevskaya's "Menagerie"
What does it mean to be a woman writer. Models of "the Self" in Alexandra Zrazhevskaya's "Menagerie"
Author(s): Irina L. SavkinaContributor(s): Elena Vassilieva (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Gender history, Russian Literature, Social development, 19th Century
Published by: Fabrika knjiga
Keywords: Russia; Russian literature; Russian female writers; gender history; 19th century;
Summary/Abstract: In Russia of the 1820s-30s the woman writer stops being an amusing domestic sight and starts claiming a certain status, offering her works to the journals and publishers. A decade later, in the 1830s-40s, thick Russian journals start publishing critical articles that do not merely mention women's names complementarily or present disparate works by women, but also introduce a new notion into the cultural common use, or, rather, a new discourse — that of women's literature. [...]
Journal: Reč
- Issue Year: 2000
- Issue No: 59.5
- Page Range: 179-197
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English