RUSS 063 Roots of Feminism (SC)

Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period.

Devoted to the lives of 448 Russian women writers who wrote from the period of Catherine the Great to the present.

This first encyclopedia of its kind in English covers ten centuries of Russian literature and includes nearly 1,000 entries by leading scholars.

Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century.

This magisterial work, written by one of the world's foremost Slavic scholars, presents a survey of Russian literature from its beginning in the eleventh century to modern times.

There are alphabetical and chronological lists for 273 authors, 13 introductory essays on various aspects of Russian literature, and a Russian/English title index.