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Nikolai Karamzin - Letters of a Russian Traveller (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Nikolai Karamzin - Letters of a Russian Traveller (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2003:04
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The Letters of a Russian traveller (1797) are the most
important expression of Enlightenment thought from the pen of a
Russian writer. In 1789 Nikolai Karamzin (1765-1826), a leading
historian and author of sentimental fiction, embarked on an
unprecedented intellectual Grand Tour. His itinerary, which took
him from St Petersburg through Germany to Revolutionary France and
finally to England, served as the basis for this semi-fictional
narrative. The narrator visits among others Kant, Herder and
Wieland, makes pilgrimage to the resting places of Voltaire and
Rousseau, and observes both the revolutionary Assemblée and the
English Parliament at first hand. The resulting work is one in
which fiction, philosophy, literary and art criticism, historical
and biographical writing coalesce, producing nothing less than a
wholesale anthropology and evaluation of the Enlightenment from the
unfamiliar perspective of a Russian intellectual writing after the
outbreak of the French Revolution. This is the first ever complete
translation of Karamzin’s work into English. The introduction and
concluding study explore the intersection of Russian and European
intellectual and literary movements, and illuminate questions about
travel literature; history of the book and the growth of
readership; the self as a philosophical subject; the growth of
perceptions of the public sphere; the pre-Romantic fascination with
funerary monuments and theories of sociability. This book is aimed
at both Russian specialists and Enlightenment scholars who do not
read Russian.
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