Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rosslyn, Wendy

Titel

Making Their Way into Print: Poems by Eighteenth-Century Russian Women

Ist Teil von

• Slavonic and East European Review, 2000-07, Vol.78 (3), p.407-438

Ort / Verlag

London, etc: Maney Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When women entered Russian literary life in the eighteenth century their dominant genre was verse. Many women poets exploited the Sentimentalist appreciation of femininity and took up the themes, genres, and personae deemed natural for women, in order to present authoritative speech in socially sanctioned roles. A few took up genres connected with public life, or presented particulars about themselves. Women took the opportunity to publish in journals with well-disposed editors and the number of poems published rose in the 1790s, preparing the way for the first collections of poems by women. While it was still too soon for women to develop distinctive individual voices, they had become resourceful in managing their presence in the text.