Description: The present volume has as its primary aim readings, from a feminist perspective, of a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the 'woman question' rose to the fore and reached its peak. All the works considered here were produced in, or hark back to, a fairly narrowly defined period of not quite 20 years (1846-.
Review Quotes: "... clearly the product of careful research, sustained thought and an admirable ability to apply the theoretical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin..." - in: SEER 87/1 (January 2009)
"...a series of essays that are both insightful and stimulating. This volume will make a useful addition to the existing body of work exploring narrative and gender issues in nineteenth-century Russian literature." - in: Slavic and East European Journal