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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 Enlightenment's privileging of vision played an especially important role in eighteenth-century Russian self-image, and that its "occularcentrism" 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.

Russian literature --- History and criticism. --- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Soumarokove, Alexander, --- Sumarokov, A. P. --- Сумароков, Александр Петрович, --- History --- Literary Criticism --- Moscow --- Russia --- Saint Petersburg --- Voltaire

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In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective.Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.

Authors, Russian --- Politics and literature --- Russian literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Russian authors --- Political activity --- History --- Political aspects --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, --- Пушкин, Александр Сергеевич, --- Poesjkin, Alexander, --- Puszkin, Aleksander, --- Puschkin, Alexander, --- Pouchkine, Alexandre, --- Poushkin, Alexander, --- Puškin, Alexandr Sergějevič, --- Пушкін, Олександр Сергійович, --- Pushkin, Oleksandr Serhiĭovych, --- Пушкин, А. С. --- Pushkin, A. S. --- Pushkin, Alexander, --- Pʻu-hsi-chin, --- Pushkin, A. --- Пускин, Александр, --- Puskin, Aleksandr, --- Pooshkeen, Alexander, --- Pushḳin, Aleksander S. --- Puškin, Alexander Sergeevich, --- Puškin, Aleksandar S., --- Puškini, Alekʻsandre, --- Puskin, Alé̂chxanđrơ, --- Puskin, Alegsandar, --- Pushkin, Alejandro Sergueevich, --- Puchkin, Alejandro Serguievich, --- Puschkin, A. S. --- Puṣkin̲, Aleksāṇṭar, --- Pushkin, Alexandr, --- פושקין --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגיביץ׳, --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגייביץ --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגייביץ׳, 1799־1837 --- פושקין, אלקסנדר סרגיביץ, --- פושקין, א. --- פושקין, א. ס, --- פושקין, א. ס. --- פושקין, ס. --- 普希金, A. S., --- Pușkin, A. S., --- Anniversaries, etc. --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Intellectual life --- Sociology of literature --- Pushkin, Alexander S. --- Puškin, Aleksandr Sergeevič --- Poesjkin, A. S. --- Poesjkin, Alexander --- Pouchkine, Alexandre --- Puschkin, Alexander --- Puschkin, Alexander Sergejewitsch --- Pushkin, Alexander --- Pusjkin, Aleksandr Sergejevitsj --- Puškin, A. S. --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich --- Political activity. --- Political aspects.

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The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.

Russian literature --- Visual perception in literature. --- Vision in literature. --- History and criticism --- indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, sight in eighteenth-century Russian, effects of visuals on formation of early modern Russian culture and identity, Russian quest for visibility, intersections of Russian literature and the visual.

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Presents a translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including "The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807" and "Holy Alliances": V.A. Zhukovskii's Epistle'To Emperor Alexander' and Christian Universalism.

Russian literature --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism.