Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction, 1846-190

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 overa