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Reinventing Romantic Poetry Studies of the Harriman Institute Reinventing Romantic Poetry Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century h Diana Greene T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n P r e s s The University of Wisconsin Press 1930Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2004 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greene, Diana. Reinventing romantic poetry : Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century / Greene, Diana. p. cm.—(Studies of the Harriman Institute) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-19104-4(alk. paper) 1. Russian poetry—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Romanticism—Russia. 3. Russian poetry—Women authors—History and criticism. 4. Women and literature—Russia—History—19th century. 5. Rostopchina, Evdokiia, 1812–1858—Criti- cism and interpretation. 6. Krestovskii, V., 1824–1889—Criticism and interpretation. 7. Pavlova, Karolina, 1807–1893—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title: Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century. II. Title. III. Series. PG3051. G74 2003 891.71′309145′082—dc21 2003006491 For Milly Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1. Social Conditions 21 2. Literary Conventions 38 3. Gender and Genre 57 4. Evdokiia Rostopchina 88 5. Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia 112 6. Karolina Pavlova 137 7. In Conclusion: Noncanonical Men Poets 167 Appendix 177 Notes 219 Bibliography 281 Index 297 vii Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the generous help of many people, groups, and institutions. I am delighted to have this op- portunity to thank them. Responses that I received to early versions of this work greatly inﬂu- enced its eventual scope and depth. My thanks to the Women in Slavic Culture and Literature group at the Summer Research Lab in Cham- paign-Urbana, to the participants in the Columbia University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, to Katharina Brett, and Carol Ueland. Several people kindly took the time to read various chapters, provid- ingmany valuable insights and ideas: Barbara Heldt, Eliot Borenstein, Charlotte Rosenthal, Natalie Dehn, Nancy Burstein, Randall Spinks, Ann Kleimola, Romy Taylor, and members of the New York University Scholarly Writing Group. I am particularly grateful to those who read the entire manuscript, offering structural, bibliographic, and other ex- pertise: Ron Meyer, Catriona Kelly, Sally Pratt, and especially Helena Goscilo for her transformative and exuberant comments on style as well as content. None of these people, of course, are responsible for the use I made of their suggestions. Jehanne Gheith and Karen Rosneck generously shared Khvoshchin- skaia materials with me. Elena Ermilovna Glafner at Rossiiskii gosu- darstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva (RGALI) provided invaluable help with Khvoshchinskaia’s notebooks. I consider myself very fortu- nate to know Antonina Strizhenko, who helped me unstintingly and re- peatedly at Pushkinskii dom. Mikhail Fainshtein graciously opened doors for me in Saint Petersburg and Moscow on several occasions. Lina Bernstein kindly sent me material on Elagina. Irina Gordon gave generous, meticulous, and expert help with Russian. I am also very ix