THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER DISCOURSE IN THE BRITISH POETRY OF THE LATE 17TH – EARLY 18TH CENTURIE
Journal Title: ІНОЗЕМНА ФІЛОЛОГІЯ - Year 2016, Vol 129, Issue
Abstract
The present paper studies the evolution of gender discourse in the poetry of Restoration Britain. The evevolutionary processes of gender discourse are based on the transformation of the gender worldview, on gender developments, as well as on the appearance of peripheral and marginal components of the concepts of «masculinity” and “femininity”. The occurrence of atypical gender plots in divergent and marginalized motifs testifi es to the diverse meaning of the texts. In this paper, we have attempted to conduct a textual analysis of Restoration poetry, using historical, biographic, intertextual and gender studies methodology. Textual samples of poetry pertaining to gender issues by Samuel Butler (1612-1680), John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) and Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) are provided with quotations, given in the original, as well as the Ukrainian translation by Maksym Strikha. In the poetic texts, gender functions as a universal social code that creates appropriate role patterns (a female spouse, a widow, a husband, a widower, a lover, etc.). These patterns create a common system of gender values which shows the standard and nonstandard male/female images in the texts. Some shifts in this gender matrix provoke the appearance of controversial habits of the characters, marginal time, place, and plot. These marginals are “questions” that need to be answered. In British poetry of the late 19th century, this contradictory and even contentious “mission” provides Butler’s Hudibras and Lady, Rochester’s Corinna and Countrywoman, Swift’s Phyllis and Stella. It would generate further development of gender themes fi rstly in Scottish poetry: A. Ross (1699-1784), R. Burns (1759-1796)); then among the English poets: A. Pope (1688-1744), A. Goldsmith (1728-1774), C. Smart (1722-1771), etc.); and in the series of paintings “Marriage à-la-mode” by William Hogarth (1697-1764) outlining interesting perspectives for further studies of gender issues in British poetry and culture in general.
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Sabriye Trosh
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- EP ID EP293704
- DOI 10.30970/fpl.2016.129.601
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