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How Russia Learned to Write - Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks (Hardcover)
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How Russia Learned to Write - Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks (Hardcover)
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In the eighteenth century, as modern forms of literature began to
emerge in Russia, most of the writers producing it were members of
the nobility. But their literary pursuits competed with strictly
enforced obligations to imperial state service. Unique to Russia
was the Table of Ranks, introduced by Emperor Peter the Great in
1722. Noblesse oblige was not just a lofty principle; aristocrats
were expected to serve in the military, civil service, or the
court, and their status among peers depended on advancement in
ranks. Irina Reyfman illuminates the surprisingly diverse effects
of the Table of Ranks on writers, their work, and literary culture
in Russia. From Sumarokov and Derzhavin in the eighteenth century
through Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and poets serving in the
military in the nineteenth, state service affected the self-images
of writers and the themes of their creative output. Reyfman also
notes its effects on Russia's atypical course in the
professionalization and social status of literary work.
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