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Reinventing romantic poetry : Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century

While poets such as Aleksander Pushkin worked within a male-centred Romantic aesthetic - the poet as bard or sexual conqueror; nature as mother or mistress; idealized woman as muse - Russian women attempted to reinvent conventions to express themselves as women and poets
eBook, English, ©2004
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)
9780299191030, 9786612269332, 0299191036, 6612269332
294959975
Social conditions
Literary conventions
Gender and genre
Evdokiia Rostopchina
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia
Karolina Pavlova
Noncanonical men poets
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
Poems in Russian in appendix