The epistolary art of Catherine the Great /

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. Kelsey Rubin-Detlev traces Catherine's devel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, [2019]
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2019:08.
Subjects:	Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796 > Correspondence. Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796 > Criticism and interpretation. Empresses > Russia > Correspondence. Written communication > 18th century. Enlightenment > Russia > History > 18th century. Russia > History > Catherine II, 1762-1796.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Catherine the Great, letter-writing and the elite Enlightenment
Chapter 1: Catherine the epistolerian
Chapter 2: Catherine the Great and eighteenth-century epistolary style
Chapter 3: Fashioning the great Enlightenment monarch
Chapter 4: The play of authority in epistolary form
Chapter 5: Epistolary publicity and the audience for Catherine's correspondences
Chapter 6: Greatness contested: Catherine's epistolary response to the French Revolution
Conclusion: New readers and new ways of reading Catherine's letters.