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This stimulating, valuable new book asks us to rethink the Russian tradition in light of its remarkable women poets and the stories of how they were invented. The case studies are well chosen and varied. Concepts like reader-imposed censorship and the masquerades of gender suggest new vantage points on many other poets as well. The rereading of Tsvetaeva's gendered poetics and the analysis of Briusov's Nelli are especially strong, as is the splendid work on the dynamics of competition and connection between women poets. --Stephanie Sandler, coauthor of History of Russian Literature Hasty eloquently describes the impediments that nineteenth- and twentieth-century women poets encountered in their attempts to gain admission to the Russian poetic tradition on equal terms with men. Her case studies, revealing the strategies that women poets developed to resist the gender norms, expectations, and male fantasies of the tradition's gatekeepers, add an important, previously overlooked aspect to the history of Russian poetry. --Diana Greene, author of Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Olga Peters Hasty weaves a new and compelling argument about strategies used by women poets against the male bastion of Russian poetry. As she investigates the opposition mounted by Pavlova and Rostopchina, the impersonations of the fictional poets Cherubina de Gabriak and Nelli, and the resistance of Tsvetaeva and Akhmatova, Hasty gives us new perspectives on the development and subversion of literary tradition. --Sarah Pratt, author of Russian Metaphysical Romanticism: The Poetry of Tiutchev and Boratynskii Hasty eloquently describes the impediments that nineteenth- and twentieth-century women poets encountered in their attempts to gain admission to the Russian poetic tradition on equal terms with men. Her case studies, revealing the strategies that women poets developed to resist the gender norms, expectations, and male fantasies of the tradition's gatekeepers, add an important, previously overlooked aspect to the history of Russian poetry. --Diana Greene, author of Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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OLGA PETERS HASTY is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word and Pushkin’s Tatiana and, with Susanne Fusso, of America through Russian Eyes, 1874–1926. 

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