Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2186-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

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 (1846-1864) in which issues of gender, of male and female roles were discussed much more keenly than in perhaps any other period in Russian literature.
The overall project is summed up by the three key words of this book’s title, narrative, space and gender, and, especially, the interconnections between them. That is, what do the way these stories were told tell us about gender identities in mid-nineteenth-century Russia? Which spaces were central to these fictional worlds? Which spaces suggested which gender identities? The discussions therefore focus on issues of narrative and space, and how they acted as ‘technologies of gender’.
This volume will be of interest to all interested in nineteenth-century Russian literature, as well as students of gender, and of the semiotics of narrative space.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Seduction of the Daughter: Sexuality in the Early Dostoevskii and the Case of Poor Folk
‘Same Time, Same Place’: Chronotope and Gender in Dostoevskii’s White Nights
The Matriarchal World in Nadezhda Sokhanskaia’s A Conversation After Dinner
‘There’s no place like home’: Narrative, Space and Gender in Family Happiness
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Part I: Narrative, Space and Gender in The Boarding-School Girl
A Sense of Place: Narrative, Space and Gender in Notes from the Underground
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Part II: Narrative, Gender and Space in The Fiancée
Bibliography
Index