Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together
twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of
eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a
spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern
Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and
religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the
collection explores the career and works of Alexander Sumarokov,
who played a formative role in literary life of his day. In the
essays of the second part Levitt argues that the EnlightenmentaEURO
(TM)s privileging of vision played an especially important role in
eighteenth-century Russian self-image, and that its
aEUROoeoccularcentrismaEURO was profoundly shaped by Orthodox
religious views. Early Modern Russian Letters offers a series of
original and provocative explorations of a vital but little studied
period.
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