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Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska

  • Sara Dickinson

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.

  • Keywords:
  • Russian women's writing,
  • toska,
  • history of emotions,
  • Karamzin,
  • Xvostova,
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Sara Dickinson

University of Genoa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8333-0528

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Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska

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Sara Dickinson

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Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia

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Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture

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Sara Dickinson, Laura Salmon

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