How relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight case studies that span the European continent from 1400 to 1800. An introductory essay examines the category of gender in historiography and specifically within premodern historiography, as well as the issue of source material for historians of the period.
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The first part addresses both conservative and radical texts of the 1790s to show their shared focus on institutional reform and indebtedness to Mary Wollstonecraft, despite their large ideological range. In the second part, the ideas of Hannah More influence the ways authors after the French revolution often linked the didactic with domestic improvement and national unity.
This collection of essays examines the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press* and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. E.g. *The Ladies' Journal, Linloon Magazine, Eyebrow Talk, Women's World, The Women's Easteern Times, and The New Woman.
This collection of essays gives an overview of key issues in Russian women's writing and of important representations of women by men, between 1600 and the present, exploring the differences between the writing of women and men in Russia. It combines a study of the history and biography of previously neglected women writers with close readings of literary texts, demonstrating that the work of many Russian writers contains much of interest for contemporary women readers. (First published in 1996.) Contents: 1 - Introduction: new perspectives on women and gender in Russian literature / Rosalind Marsh: Part I: Historical and biographical perspectives: 2 - Women in seventeenth-century Russian literature / Rosalind McKenzie: 3 - Conflicts over gender and status in early nineteenth-century Russian literature: the case of Anna Bunina and her poem ‘Padenie Faetona’ / Wendy Rosslyn: 4 - Reading the future: women and fortune-telling in Russia (1770–1840) / Faith Wigzell: 5 - Russian women writers of the nineteenth century / Ol'ga Demidova: 6 - The ‘woman question’ of the 1860s, and the ambiguity of the ‘learned woman’ / Arja Rosenholm: 7 - Carving out a career: women prose writers, 1885–1917, the biographical background / Charlotte Rosenthal: 8 - The fate of women writers in literature at the beginning of the twentieth century: ‘A. Mirè’, Anna Mar, Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal / Mariia Mikhailova: 9 - Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal's The Singing Ass: a woman's view of men and Eros / Pamela Davidson: 10 - Anastasiia Verbitskaia reconsidered / Rosalind Marsh: 11 - Soviet woman of the 1980s: self-portrait in poetry / Elena Trofimova: Part II: The perspective of literary criticism: 12. - The silence of rebellion: women in the work of Leonid Andreev / Eva Buchwald: 13 - Poor Liza: the sexual politics of Elizaveta Bam by Daniil Kharms / Graham Roberts: 14 - The crafting of a self: Lidiia Ginzburg's early journal / Jane Gary Harris: 15 - Voyeurism and ventriloquism: Aleksandr Velichanskii's Podzemnaia nimfa / Gerald S. Smith: 16 - Thinking self in the poetry of Ol'ga Sedakova / Stephanie Sandler: 17 - Women's space and women's place in contemporary Russian fiction / Helena Goscilo