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oapen-20.500.12657-558192022-06-02T03:15:54Z Chapter Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska Dickinson, Sara Russian women's writing toska history of emotions Karamzin Xvostova This article reviews the evolution of toska in eighteenth-century literary discourse to demonstrate this sentiment's profound connection with notions of femininity. That century's use of toska culminates in Aleksandra Xvostova's then popular Otryvki (Fragments, 1796), the emotional emphases of which were one of the reasons for its success. In fact, we argue that Russian women's writing contains a tradition of emotional expression that is lexically distinct from the male tradition. Xvostova’s emphatic and reiterative use of toska participates in a larger debate about gender and the 'ownership' of personal emotions and it was relevant to literary arguments about "feminization" that involved writers such as Nikolaj Karamzin and Vasilij Zukovskij, but also a number of women authors (e.g. Ekaterina Urusova, Anna Turčaninova, Elizaveta Dolgorukova, Anna Volkova), whose work asserts the right of the female subject to both suffer strong emotion and to express it. 2022-06-01T12:06:30Z 2022-06-01T12:06:30Z 2015 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788866558224_2 2612-7679 9788866558224 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55819 eng Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 15567.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-6655-822-4_3 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.03 10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.03 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788866558224 28 26 Florence open access
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This article reviews the evolution of toska in eighteenth-century literary discourse to demonstrate this sentiment's profound connection with notions of femininity. That century's use of toska culminates in Aleksandra Xvostova's then popular Otryvki (Fragments, 1796), the emotional emphases of which were one of the reasons for its success. In fact, we argue that Russian women's writing contains a tradition of emotional expression that is lexically distinct from the male tradition. Xvostova’s emphatic and reiterative use of toska participates in a larger debate about gender and the 'ownership' of personal emotions and it was relevant to literary arguments about "feminization" that involved writers such as Nikolaj Karamzin and Vasilij Zukovskij, but also a number of women authors (e.g. Ekaterina Urusova, Anna Turčaninova, Elizaveta Dolgorukova, Anna Volkova), whose work asserts the right of the female subject to both suffer strong emotion and to express it.
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