Une étude sur les écrits épistolaires de Catherine II, démontrant la richesse de son style littéraire ainsi que son attachement aux idées des Lumières. L'impératrice développa par sa riche correspondance son image publique ainsi qu'un réseau d'influence parmi les élites intellectuelle, politique et sociale du XVIIIe siècle. ©Electre 2025
The Epistolary art of Catherine the Great is the first study to analyse comprehensively the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 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 to Catherine's epistolary practice. Through this, Rubin-Detlev illustrates how Catherine's letters reveal her full engagement with the Enlightenment and her original responses 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.
Paru le : 10/09/2019
Thématique : Russie
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
Éditeur(s) :
Liverpool University Press
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-1-78962-007-8
EAN13 : 9781789620078
Reliure : Broché
Pages : XIX-391
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.4 cm
Poids: 0 g
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