Populiariosios prozos ir feministinės savimonės pradmenys Lietuvoje: Ona Radvilaitė Mostovska

LTStraipsnyje pristatoma lituanistinio literatūros istorikų dėmesio iki šiol nesulaukusi XVIII–XIX a. sandūros Lietuvos menininkė ir rašytoja Ona Radvilaitė Mostovska. Aptariamos autorės biografijos detalės, liudijančios kūrybingos moters saviraiškos, išėjimo į viešumą bei pripažinimo galimybes to meto visuomenėje. Rekonstruojama Mostovskos gotikinės ir istorinės prozos publikavimo istorija kaip populiariosios literatūros – laisvalaikio skaitinių serijos projekto – precedentas Lietuvoje, aktualizuojantis ankstyvosios populiariosios literatūros ir dvaro pramogų kultūros ryšį. Mostovskos gotikinė proza iškyla ir kaip palanki terpė ankstyvosios feministinės savimonės raiškai. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Dvaro pramogų kultūra; Feministinė savimonė; Gotikinė proza; Lietuvos moterų literatūra; Populiarioji literatūra; Precedentas; Culture of court entertainment; Feminist self-aware; Feminist self-awareness; Gothic prose; Lithuanian women's literature; Lithuanian womens literature; Popular literature; Precedent.

ENThe paper introduces Ona Radvilaitė Mostovska, a Lithuanian artist and writer of the turn of the nineteenth century, whose figure adds significant details to the history of literature written by Lithuanian women, and who has so far been overlooked by the historians. The precedents of the introduction of the series of popular prose and of the genres of gothic and historical prose into Lithuanian literature are linked to Mostovska. Her legacy points to the close connection between early popular literature and aristocratic culture of court entertainment, and its environment of amateur arts. […] At the same time, Mostovska’s work highlights the lasting aspects of popular literature: the author’s pragmatic attitudes that directly influence both the creative and the publishing processes, the orientation towards a narrow range of reception of literature while exploiting simple opportunities of literary expression. This prose confirms the regularity of the roles of women writers and readers in the emerging field of mass literature. Also, it reveals how literature, occupying a new sphere of culture (that of reading and writing) becomes receptive to viable elements of self-awareness. Mostovska’s gothic prose was a favourable environment for the expression of early moderate feminist self-awareness which rose primarily as the idea of the natural equality of men and women. From the point of view of the change of the literary world’s perception, this prose involves some intermediary elements of human depiction connecting the external and heroic popularity of the individual that was dominating the literature of the Enlightenment with the romantic "inner human". [From the publication]