Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rosslyn, W.; Tosi, A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns and missionaries. It illuminates the lives of merchant and serf women as well as noblewomen and focuses on women's culture in Russia during this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230589902
• Artikelnr.: 38163109

Autorenporträt

SARA DICKINSON Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Genova GITTA HAMMARBERG deWitt Wallace Professo, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA PAUL KEENAN Tutorial Fellow, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK OL'GA KOSHELEVA Leading Research Fellow, Department of History, the Academy of Education, Moscow GARY MARKER Professor of Russian History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY Professor of Theatre, University of Hawaii, USA RICHARD STITES Professor of Russian History, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA GALINA UL'IANOVA Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow WILLIAM G. WAGNER Brown Professor of History and chair of the History Department, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; A.Tosi PART I: WOMEN AND THE ARTS Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century; L.Donnels O'Malley Female Serfs in the Performing World; R.Stites Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Tosi Women's Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700-1825; S.Dickinson The First Russian Women's Journals and the Construction of the Reader; G.Hammarberg PART II: WOMEN AND SOCIETY "Without Going to a Regular Court...": the Phenomenon of the 'Divorce Letter' in Petrine Russia; O.Kosheleva The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700-62); P.Keenan Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; G.Ul'ianova PART III: FEMININITY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE Sacralising Female Rule, 1725-61; G.Marker Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: the Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod; W.G.Wagner Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century; W.Rosslyn Appendix: Select Bibliography (2001-2006): Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825; W.Rosslyn

Rezensionen

"Recommended." - CHOICE