„Wszystkie kobiety diabła są warte”? Niewolnice mody i ofiary mężczyzn w „modnych” komediach Wojciecha Bogusławskiego
“Wszystkie kobiety diabła są warte [A woman is good-for-nothing]”? Fashion-Slaves and Male-Victims in Wojciech Bogusławski’s “Fashionable” Comedies

Summary/Abstract: The paper refers to a small collection of Wojciech Bogusławski’s comedies devoted to manners fashion observable in the last 20 years of the 18th c. In “Ślub modny” (“A Fashionable Wedding,” 1780) he concentrates on free relationships, in “Mieszczki modne” (“Fashionable Townswomen,” 1780) he voices against the enriched middle class, while in “Spazmy modne” (“Fashionable Spasms,” 1797) he sketches a picture of a modern false front marriage that shadows indifference, betrayal, and the will to divorce. The author of the paper focuses on male-female relationships, especially on the problems of male domination and female role models promoted at that time. She also tries to answer the question whether and to what extent the “fashionable wives” portrayed in the comedies wish to release from the constrained dependence and freely decide about their own lives. She additionally pays attention to the feminism that arises in the Enlightenment, on the woman perspective that comes into view, and on the issue of objectivism of males’ writing about a woman.

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