Nieznany XIX-wieczny dziennik Pelagii Rościszewskiej
The Obscure Nineteenth-Century Diary of Pelagia Rościszewska
A Project of Reading
Author(s): Dariusz SkórczewskiSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Pelagia Rościszewska; female autobiographical writing; diary; nineteenth-century literature; national identity discourse; book studies
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses an unknown diary, written in Polish by a Polish noblewoman, Pelagia Rościszewska, between 1819 and 1856, as a rare instance of female autobiographical diurnal writing in Kiev Governorate – the land taken away from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and incorporated into Russia. Bringing the insights of book studies and drawing from the analysis of the material aspect of the diary’s manuscript, the author outlines the possibility of reading this text as a specimen of Polish national identity discourse under Russian imperial rule.
Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo [PFLIT]
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 14 (17)
- Page Range: 353-371
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Polish
