Cechy i funkcje przekazów literackich na łamach dziewiętnastowiecznej prasy kobiecej

Abstract

The article attempts to answer the question about the role of the nineteenth- -century periodicals in the dissemination of readership among women. This type of publications from the very beginning acted as a medium for literature and was often classified as a literary magazine due to the lack of distinctive typological profile. Particularly early periodicals for women from the years 1820–1860 (predominantly until the November Uprising) morphologically remained literary magazines because of expanded fictional sections. The article discusses forms of that kind of message, its functions, evolution in the second half of the nineteenth-century, when new genres of women’s press were distinguished, regarding wider thematic spectrum and reading practices aimed for women with particular reference to their social status at that time.