No Good Without Reward: Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition Volume 13
(Book #13 in the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series Series)
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A female contemporary of Alexander Pushkin, Liubov Krichevskaya makes her Anglophone debut in an excellent translation of her fiction, drama, and poetry, which deftly capture women's estate in the early nineteenth century. Krichevskaya intriguingly combines Sentimentalist preoccupations--sensibility, virtue, and men's moral reformation through confrontation with exemplary women's passive piety--with the uncontrollable passions and volatile hero popularized by the Byronic strain of Romanticism. Her gynocentric texts poignantly convey the stringent limitations imposed upon women's agency by a society that paradoxically credited them with the seemingly limitless capacity to exert a civilizing influence as icons of probity. Readers acquainted with Rousseau, Richardson, and Goethe will discover familiar feminized turf, but cultivated in a Russian vein.
--Helena Goscilo
Chair and Professor of Slavic, The Ohio State University
--Helena Goscilo
Chair and Professor of Slavic, The Ohio State University
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0772721106
ISBN13:9780772721105
Release Date:July 2011
Publisher:Iter Press
Length:286 Pages
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