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The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Paperback)
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The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2019:08
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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.
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