Women’s Writing

Masquerade and Femininity:
Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Editors: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips and Marja Rytkönen

Date of Publication: 2008-03-01

Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. Masquerade and Femininity brings together East European literary studies and gender studies, offering a comparative perspective on literature, literary theory and cultural phenomena in Poland and Russia, and featuring a range of both eastern European and western scholars. In its pages, the reader is invited to move beyond Russian literature and language into a dialogic approach between Slavic literatures.

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