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.
In this book, 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.
| ISBN: | 9781789620078 |
| Publication date: | 12th August 2019 |
| Author: | Kelsey RubinDetlev |
| Publisher: | Voltaire Foundation an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Series: | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Western philosophy: Enlightenment History |
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.
In this book, 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.
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, History
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great is available in Paperback
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great was written by Kelsey RubinDetlev and published by Voltaire Foundation an imprint of Liverpool University Press
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great has 416 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series