Dear colleagues,
I’m happy to announce the publication of my new volume,
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads (Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, October 2017).
Contributors (in order of book chapters): Sofia Ahlberg, Alisa Zhulina, Matthew Roth, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, David Rampton, Marie Bouchet, David H. J. Larmour, Julian W. Connolly, Olga Voronina, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, and Lara Delage-Toriel.
Below you can find: a brief description, a table of contents and links to the publisher’s site.
Description:
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s lovers,
witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative,
and with the author himself.
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CONTENTS
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION:
Nabokov’s Passportless Wanderer: A Study of Nabokov’s Woman
Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
PART I: FUGITIVE SOULS
Chapter One
Via Dolores: The Passage of the Feminine as Contraband in Nabokov’s Fiction
Sofia Ahlberg
Chapter Two
Queen Sacrifice: The Feminine Figure of Power and Nabokov’s Strategy of Loss
Alisa Zhulina
Chapter Three
A Small Mad Hope: Pale Fire, Hazel Shade, and the Oedipal Disaster
Matthew Roth
Chapter Four
Nabokov’s Mermaid: “Spring in Fialta”
Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
PART II: FIGMENTS OF DESIRE
Chapter Five
Jealously Guarded Secrets: Nabokov’s Women and the Vicissitudes of Desire
David Rampton
Chapter Six
The Text(ure) of Desire: The Garments and Ornaments of Nabokov’s Maidens
Marie Bouchet
Chapter Seven
Reading the Woman on the Train
David H. J. Larmour
PART III: IN SEARCH OF A (LOST) VOICE
Chapter Eight
Hearing the Female Voice in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction
Julian W. Connolly
Chapter Nine
“The Fascination of Pebbles”: Fictional Lives of Véra Nabokov
Olga Voronina
Chapter Ten
Nabokov in an Evening Gown
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Chapter Eleven
Speak, Mademoiselle: Nabokov's Authorial Posture Revisited
Lara Delage-Toriel
Best,
Elena
Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, PhD
Provost’s Faculty Associate for NT/T Faculty
Principal Lecturer in Russian/Global Literature
Department of English, COLA, RIT
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads (October 2017)