Női költészet a 18–19. század fordulóján. Szereplehetőségek és problémák
Women’s Poetry at the Turn of the 18th–19th centuries. Potential roles and problems

Summary/Abstract: In the Hungarian literature, debates about the role of women in literature began in the mid-nineteenth century. These theoretical disputes were connected to the more general question of the education of women, but they do not touch upon those female authors who by that time had already been represented in the literary field through their own individual volumes. In my paper I investigate the female poets appearing at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, trying to uncover why texts which prioritised individual fate, and represented it as a passion narrative, became more dominant during the process of literary canonisation. In my reckoning, the primary reason for this was that the male mentors of the generation favouring epistles designated Borbála Molnár and her poetry as the pattern to follow. Although several authors deviated from this pattern, the general impression that these women wrote primarily as a means to mitigate their unfortunate circumstances remained prevalent.

• Details
• Contents