Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts by Marcus C. Levitt

[christa kling]

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce that Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts by Marcus C. Levitt will be available in September.
 
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading American scholar of eighteenth-century Russia. The essays concern a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature.  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 Enlightenment’s privileging of vision played an especially important role in eighteenth-century Russian culture, and that this “occularcentrism” was profoundly shaped by indigenous religious views. Early Modern Russian Letters offers a series of original and provocative perspectives on a fascinating but little studied period. 
 
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Christa Kling
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Academic Studies Press


      

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