A.Ya. Panaeva's poetics in a comparative aspect: a problem statement

A.Ya. Panaeva's poetics, considered in recent years mainly in the framework of gender studies, is analyzed in this article in a comparative aspect. The focus of the researcher's interest is the poetics of the novel “Zhenskaya dolya” (“The Woman's Lot”, 1862) in comparison with its Western European samples, the works of George Sand and George Eliot. Panaeva and Eliot are considered in the article as followers of G. Sand, having perceived and processed her creative method in their own way. Eliot's poetics is developing in the direction of realism and distance from any ideology, her movement from Sand being manifested in overcoming ideologized writing. Panaeva argues with Sand, demonstrating in her novel that a woman is perceived as a household item, as a necessary convenience, but not as an independent person; and this applies to both old-fashioned and progressive characters, the readers of G. Sand. At the same time, Panaeva does not drift away from the French writer's narrative or stylistics. The author comes to the conclusion that the reception of G. Sand's work by English and Russian writers seems to be going in a similar direction, moving towards realistic comprehension and reflection of reality. However, if Eliot becomes a recognized classic of realism, having mastered the heritage of the French writer in the context of Victorian literature, Panaeva, despite her closeness to realism, remains a part of the George-Sandian tradition. If not limited to a gender framework, the explanation can be found in the scale of the influence of the French novel tradition, so weighty that even polemizing with her literary model in the sphere of ideology, Panaeva does not leave it in the realm of poetics.