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Auteur(s) : Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey
Titre(s) : The epistolary art of Catherine the Great [Texte imprimé] / Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
Publication : Liverpool : Published by Liverpool university press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation,
University of Oxford, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-391 p.) : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2019, 8
Lien à la collection : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment (Print)
Note(s) : L'ouvrage porte l'ISSN de la collection précédente : 0435-2866. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-379) and index
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great is the first study to analyse comprehensively
the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (reigned 1762-1796) and to argue
that they constitute a masterpiece of eighteenth-century epistolary writing. Kelsey
Rubin-Detlev traces Catherine's development as a letter-writer, her networking strategies,
and her image-making, demonstrating the centrality of ideas, literary experimentation,
and manipulation of material form evident in Catherine's epistolary practice. Through
this, Rubin-Detlev illustrates how Catherine's letters reveal her full engagement
with the Enlightenment and further show how creatively she absorbed and responded
to the ideas of her century. The letter was not merely a means by which the empress
promoted Russia and its leader as European powers; it was a literary genre through
which Catherine expressed her identity as a member of the social, political, and intellectual
elite of her century
Sujet(s) : Catherine II (1729-1796 ; impératrice de Russie) -- Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781789620078. - ISBN 1789620074 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45803522z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45803522
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Catherine the Great, letter-writing and the elite Enlightenment ;
Chapter 1: Catherine the epistolerian ; Chapter 2: Catherine the Great and eighteenth-century
epistolary style ; Chapter 3: Fashioning the great Enlightenment monarch ; Chapter
4: The play of authority in epistolary form ; Chapter 5: Epistolary publicity and
the audience for Catherine's correspondences ; Chapter 6: Greatness contested: Catherine's
epistolary response to the French Revolution ; onclusion: New readers and new ways
of reading Catherine's letters.
