Русская женская литература в XVIII–XIX веках: эволюция, проблематика и поэтика

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the evolution, problematics and poetics of Russian women’s literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main task of the work is to determine the origins of professional women’s writing, as well as to show the development and evolution of this branch of art. The period of women’s creative work that lasted from the second half of the 18th century reached its peak in the 1830s and 1840s, becoming a fruitful stage for women’s literature, which developed in many forms and directions. It should be noted that its formation is inextricably linked with changes in the state system (the accession of women to the Russian throne) and the literary process (for example, the era of sentimentalism), as well as with the emergence of new, purely female, groups and movements (for example, emancipation). The evolution of Russian women’s writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was all along a process subordinate to the power of men, who had a real influence on the formation of women’s style or publication processes.