Chapter Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska

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...

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Main Author:	Dickinson, Sara
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Firenze University Press 2022
Subjects:	Russian women's writing toska history of emotions Karamzin Xvostova
Online Access:	ONIX_20220601_9788866558224_2
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