A History of Central European Women's Writing

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

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.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.