Pushkin's Heroines and the Life-Art Connection: Freedom in a Female Frame

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This book traces the development of Pushkins heroines from his youthful Southern Poems to his last published work The Captains Daughter, placing them within the context of the authors dominant genre models and his own life circumstances.

Though Pushkins innovative depictions of female characters were to alter the course of Russian literature and lead to the development of the strong woman in Russian literature, the extensive scholarship of the poets oeuvre has remained largely herocentric. While Tatiana Larina from Eugene Onegin has received a significant degree of scholarly attention, his other heroines have not been studied in a systematic way. As a corrective, this book traces the development of Pushkins heroines from his youthful Southern Poems to his last published work The Captains Daughter, placing them within the context of the authors dominant genre models, focusing specifically on Byron, Shakespeare, and Scott, and his own life circumstances. The overarching purpose of this revisionist feminist study is to examine the ways in which Pushkin broadened the possibilities for heroines within his art and used the freedom he found in inhabiting the female frame to escape from the social norms that constrained Russian noblemen in order to puzzle through his own personal concerns.

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Amanda F. Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.