Early modern Russian letters texts and contexts : selected essays
- Author/Creator:
- Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-
- Publication/Creation:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Early modern Russian letters texts and contexts : selected essays / by Marcus C. Levitt
- Series Titles:
- Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, funder
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich,1717-1777--Criticism and interpretation
Russian literature--18th century--History and criticism
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Sumarokov and the literary process of his time -- Visuality and orthodoxy in eighteenth-century Russian culture.
- Summary:
- Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores the career and works of Alexander Sumarokov, who played a formative role in literary life of his day. In the essays of the second part Levitt argues that the Enlightenment's privileging of vision played an especially important role in eighteenth-century Russian self-image, and that its "occularcentrism" was profoundly shaped by Orthodox religious views. Early Modern Russian Letters offers a series of original and provocative explorations of a vital but little studied period.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- viii, 437 p. : ill
- Use and Reproduction:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
- General Note:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936713801502486
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-674-6
1-61811-129-9 - OCLC Number:
- 1135585579
922977989 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1515/9781618116741
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