| Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts Contributor(s): Levitt, Marcus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618118080 ISBN-13: 9781618118080 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - History | Modern - 18th Century - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.709 |
| Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.37 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |