19th-Century Russophone Women Writers I: In Dialogue with Famous Men

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

As our field continues to transform itself by decolonializing and decanonizing Russian literary history, the often sidelined and forgotten voices of Russophone women writers speak to us in powerful new ways. Women engaged in conversations with their peers – men as well as women, nationally and internationally. This series of four panels includes papers that address dialogues among the most well-known noblewomen and famous men, including Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev; Sofia Khvoshchinskaia, Varvara Tsekhovskaia, Zinaida Gippius, and Karamzin; Evgeniia Tur and Turgenev; Karolina Pavlovna and Friedrich Schiller; Maria Zhukova; Avdotia Panaeva and Chernyshevsky; and the husband-and-wife teams of the Dostoevskys and the Tolstoys. We include not only novels, but crime fiction, memoirs by midwives and by actors, novels in verse, poetry and drama, movie scripts, and a panel devoted to translations.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 19th Century

Chair

• Adrian J. Wanner, Pennsylvania State U

Papers

• Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Psychology of Child Loss - Anna A. Berman, U of Cambridge (UK)

• Not for General Consumption: Anna Dostoevskaya Creates a Better, Kinder Fyodor Dostoevsky - Irina Reyfman, Columbia U

• From Cinderella to Revolutionary: Avdotya Panaeva's Swarthy Heroine - Alexander Burry, Ohio State U

Discussant

• Katherine Bowers, U of British Columbia (Canada)