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A History of Central European Women's Writing

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Studies in Russia and East Europe (SREE)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Women’s Writing in Central Europe before 1800

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6
    2. Women’s Writing in Hungary before 1800

      • George Gushing
      Pages 27-32
  3. Women’s Writing in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-46
    2. Polish Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century

      • Ursula Phillips, Grażyna Borkowska
      Pages 63-86
    3. Hungarian Women Writers, 1790–1900

      • Anna Fábri
      Pages 87-109
  4. Women’s Writing in Central Europe, 1900–45

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-125
    2. Czech Women Writers, 1890s–1948

      • Robert B. Pynsent
      Pages 126-149
    3. Hungarian Women Writers, 1900–45

      • Anna Fábri
      Pages 165-181
  5. Women’s Writing in Central Europe, 1945–95

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-200
    2. Czech Women Writers after 1945

      • Veronika Ambros
      Pages 201-219
    3. Hungarian Women’s Writing, 1945–95

      • Andrea Petõ
      Pages 240-255

About this book

A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It introduces a little known area of European literature from a unique point of view, illustrating the development of women's writing in the region from the middle ages to the present day. If offers a broad historical survey, placing individual writers in their social and political context and showing how processes shaping their lives are reflected in their works.

Reviews

'A History of Central European Women's Writing represents an intellectual event of considerable magnitude.' - Halina Filipowicz, Slavic Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

    Celia Hawkesworth

About the editor

VERONIKA AMBROS Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Toronto GRAZYNA BORKOWSKA Research Consultant, Institute of Literary Studies, Polish Academy of Science and Arts, Warsaw MALGORZATA CZERMINSKA Professor of Polish Literature, Lexicographical Institute, Zagreb DUNJA DETONI-DUJMIC Research Consultant in Literature, Lexicographical Institute, Zagreb DUNJA FALISEVAC Professor of Early Croatian Literature, University of Zagreb ANNA FABRI Professor of Literature, University of Budapest DAGMAR KROCANOVA Professor of Slovak Literature, University of Bratislava NINA KOVIC previously University Librarian DOBROVA MOLDANOVA Professor of Czech Literature, J.E.Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem ANDREA PETO Lecturer in History, University of Budapest URSULA PHILLIPS Librarian, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London ROBERT PYNSENT Professor of Czech Literature, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London ALFRED THOMAS Professor of Slavic Literature, Harvard University DIVNA ZECEVIC Research Adviser, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb

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