286 pp / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-7727-2110-5 / $31.95
Edited and Translated by Brian James Baer
This English and Russian volume presents selected works of Liubov Krichevskaya (b. 1800), arguably the first professional woman of letters in Ukraine. At times hopeful, at times despairing, her literature explores themes of women’s agency in society, both reflecting on and exploring women’s opportunities and limitations and referencing women authors of her time. Including dramas, novellas, lyric poetry, and an epistolary novel, her oeuvre offers critical observations that reflect the philosophy of Sentimentalism.
“[Krichevskaya’s] 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
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Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, where he teaches in the master’s and doctoral programs in translation. He has published widely on issues of gender and sexuality in Russian culture and has translated literary and scholarly works from Russian by such authors as Sergei Dovlatov, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, and Yuri Lotman.
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 49:6 (Feb 2012), p. 1067. Reviewed by B. M. Sutcliffe.
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286 pp / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-7727-2110-5 / $31.95
