@ARTICLE{Sokalska_Małgorzata_Inside_2022,
 author={Sokalska, Małgorzata},
 number={No 4 (373)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={591-615},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={The thread that runs through this article is made of silk, a fabric with a fascinating history of origins in China and a long record of projects aimed at organizing and mechanizing its production in Europe. The silk motif recurs throughout 19th century literature. As an object of realist description it gives the writer the opportunity to explore its sensuous material appeal and, also, to create around it a web of additional references and associations. For Honoré de Balzac and Bolesław Prus silk carries connotations of elegance, social status and social aspirations. In the fiction of Eliza Orzeszkowa it is one of the regularly recurring elements of descriptions of outward appearance of characters. It can interpreted as a mechanical repetition or, perhaps, the foregrounding of the stereotype meaning of silk intended as an invitation to the moral judgment of characters furnished with that mark.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={Inside out, or silk in literature: Honoré de Balzac, Bolesław Prus, Eliza Orzeszkowa},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125778/PDF-MASTER/2022-04-RL-06.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2022.142985},
 keywords={thematic criticism, 19th-century realist novel, cultural significance of silk, the silk motif in fiction, clothing and fashion in fiction, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910)},
}