Проблема представления материнства в русской литературе XIX века

Аннотация

Towards the Problem of Motherhood in Russian Literature of the 19th
Century. For the objective reasons, Russian masculine literature of the 19th
century did not pay attention to maternal subjects, which play an important role
in women's prose, especially in the modern one. There is an opinion that the
images of mothers depicted by the Russian writers are characterized by a tendency
to self-sacrifice, and maternal love seemed to be described as exclusively
iconic. This article aims to deny this statement because it’s not based on the
historical development of the concept of motherhood. The examples from the
works of Nekrasov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, who portrayed images of mothers,
demonstrate that their attitude towards motherhood was based on the understanding
of its functions typical to that time. The Russian writers also outlined
some trends that would be put forward by feminist criticism in the field of
motherhood problems.