Women Writers in Russian Literature

TOBY W. CLYMAN is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Albany. She has published studies on Chekhov, Gogol, Babel, and on Russian autobiography, and is the editor of A Chekhov Companion (Greenwood, 1985) and co-translator of P. M. Bitsilli's Chekhov's Art: A Stylistic Analysis (1983).DIANA GREENE is an independent scholar who has written articles on feminist criticism of Russian literature, the Strugatsky brothers, Anastasiia Chebotarevskaia, and Karolina Pavlova. She is the author of Insidious Intent: Interpretations of Fedor Sologub's The Petty Demon (1986), and is currently working on a book on Karolina Pavlova.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionWomen in Old Russian Literature by Margaret ZiolkowskiWomen as Performers of Oral Russian Literature: A Reexamination of Epic and Lament by Natalie KononenkoThe "Feminization" of Russian Literature: Women, Language and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Judith VowlesLove, Work and the Woman Question in Mid Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing by Jane CostlowWomen's Prose Fiction in the Age of Realism by Mary F. ZirinNineteenth-Century Women Poets: Critical Perception vs. Self-Definition by Diana GreeneWomen Physicians' Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century by Toby W. ClymanFor the Good of the Cause: Women's Autobiography in the Twentieth Century by Beth HolmgrenAchievement and Obscurity: Women's Prose in the Silver Age by Charlotte RosenthalWomen Poets of the Silver Age by Jane A. TaubmanWaiting in the Wings: Women Playwrights in the Twentieth Century by Melissa T. SmithParadigm Lost? Contemporary Women's Fiction by Helena GosciloWomen's Poetry in the Soviet Union by Carol UelandRussian Women Writers in Emigré Literature by Marina LedkovskyIndex