Prostitution in 19th & 20th century literature, esp. Kuprin, Anreev & Blok

[Anne Hruska]

By the way, I've got a chapter on prostitution in 
19th century Russian and European fiction in my 
dissertation, "Infected Families:  Belonging and 
Estrangement in the Works of Leo Tolstoy," UC 
Berkeley 2001.  Sarah, let me know if you want me 
to email you a copy.

Best

Anne

>Dear Seelangers,
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>I am a Ph.D student at Keele University 
>researching the theme of prostitution in Russian 
>literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth 
>centuries.  At the moment I am concentrating on 
>authors such as Chernyshevsky, Tolstoy, 
>Dostoevsky, Garshin, Chekhov, Andreev, Blok and 
>Kuprin.  I have done a lot of background work on 
>prostitution as a social phenomenon and on the 
>authors mentioned above in general, but have 
>unfortunately found few sources that go into 
>depth about any author’s depictions of, interest 
>in, or concerns about prostitution.
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>I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any 
>such reference in connection with any of the 
>above authors, but particularly with Kuprin, 
>whose novel ‘Yama’ was clearly a major 
>contribution to the theme, though relatively 
>little seems to have been written about the man 
>or the book.  I’m also especially interested in 
>information about Andreev and Blok, including 
>advice about which of their works are most 
>relevant to the theme, any instances where their 
>depictions of prostitution have been discussed 
>in criticism and any documenting of their 
>personal position on the issue.
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>Further to this I am still searching for a 
>literary depiction of prostitution from a less 
>well-known author, perhaps written from the 
>female perspective or even by a practicing or 
>reformed prostitute, as I believe this could 
>shed new light on my research.
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>I would be extremely grateful for any assistance offered.
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>Thank you in advance.
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>Sarah Barber
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Anne Hruska, Ph.D.
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Stanford University

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