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 em...

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Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2015
Series:Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
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