A female contemporary of Alexander Pushkin, Liubov Krichevskaya
makes her Anglophone debut in an excellent translation of her
fiction, drama, and poetry, which deftly capture women's estate in
the early nineteenth century. Krichevskaya intriguingly combines
Sentimentalist preoccupations-sensibility, virtue, and men's moral
reformation through confrontation with exemplary women's passive
piety-with the uncontrollable passions and volatile hero
popularized by the Byronic strain of Romanticism. Her gynocentric
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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