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dc.contributor.authorVaysman, Margarita
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-15T00:35:17Z
dc.date.available2024-01-15T00:35:17Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-15
dc.identifier280018116
dc.identifier6a0ea15b-1726-458e-a532-12d44e4f1b78
dc.identifier85161579772
dc.identifier.citationVaysman , M 2023 , ' The trouble with queer celebrity : Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova)’s A Year of Life in St Petersburg (1838) ' , Modern Language Review , vol. 118 , no. 1 , pp. 97-113 . < https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/876985 >en
dc.identifier.issn0026-7937
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4796-4523/work/127065678
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/29007
dc.description.abstract“Let my tale be a warning to anyone whose only claim to society’s attention is some kind of anomaly in their lives”, wrote Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova) (1783-1866) in the foreword to his novella 'A Year of Life in St Petersburg, or the Trouble with Third Visits' (1838). The chief anomaly of Aleksandrov's own life – that in 1806 he left his life as Nadezhda Durova and crossed genders to serve as a cavalry officer for the next ten years – provided material for his best-selling memoir 'Notes of a Cavalry Maiden' (1836) and turned him into a literary celebrity. In his later novella, Aleksandrov offered his readers another kind of narrative: a unique account of non-heteronormative literary fame in early nineteenth-century Russia. This paper discusses Alesandrov's later texts and considers wider questions posed by attempts to thematise and theorise queer fame: how did queer celebrity function in nineteenth-century Russia? How was it narrated in literary texts, and how did this public representation map onto the private discourses of the queer self in letters and diaries?
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dc.format.extent578857
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofModern Language Reviewen
dc.subjectPG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literatureen
dc.subjectDK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republicsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccPGen
dc.subject.lccDKen
dc.titleThe trouble with queer celebrity : Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova)’s A Year of Life in St Petersburg (1838)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Russianen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2024-01-15
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Modern-Language-Review-118-1en
dc.identifier.urlhttps://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/876985en


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