THE EVOLUTION OF GENDER DISCOURSE IN THE BRITISH POETRY OF THE LATE 17TH – EARLY 18TH CENTURIES
Journal: Inozenma Philologia
Year: 2016

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 attemp