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This is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great. "Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an all-embracing review of Catherine's entire literary output, which consists of works in multiple genres and languages. The Russian empress's writings have been the repeated subject of serious analysis for nineteenth- and twentieth-century researchers; all of these in one way or another demonstrate that across a variety of genres and formats, with a greater or lesser degree of independence and originality, the literary works of Catherine II always express her politics and ideology. If Catherine's policy had the transfer of imperial power to Russia, a kind of translatio imperii, as its strategic goal, then the literary and cultural accomplishments of the empress had to establish a translatio studii, that is, the transfer of the Roman cultural paradigm, knowledge, and civilization onto Russian soil. This book will be devoted to an analysis of these paradigms as they emerged between Catherine II's creations on the page and in the empire itself"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Russian literature --- Russian literature --- Politics and literature --- Enlightenment --- Russia --- Russia --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Civilization --- Politics and government --- Catherine --- Catherine --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Russian Empire, 18th century, political symbolism, literary studies, European Civilization, Russia vs. Europe, the royal history, Catherine the Great.

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In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy.

Fiction --- History as a science --- Old French literature --- anno 1200-1299 --- France --- -French prose literature --- French prose literature --- -Romances --- -Literature and history --- Historiography --- -History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Historical criticism --- History --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- History and criticism --- Roman influences --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Rome --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- -Historiography. --- Historiography. --- Literature and history --- Romances --- History and literature --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Literature and history. --- French Literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Roman influences. --- Prose française --- Roman courtois --- Littérature et histoire --- Historiographie --- Histoire et critique --- Influence romaine --- Histoire --- 프랑스 --- Falanxi --- Fa-lan-hsi --- 法蘭西 --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Франц --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц Улс --- French prose literature - To 1500 - History and criticism. --- French prose literature - Roman influences. --- Romances - History and criticism. --- Historiography - France. --- 13th century french history. --- 13th century french literature. --- ancient history. --- aristocracy. --- disengagement. --- economic change. --- european literature. --- france. --- french literature. --- french vernacular. --- heroic. --- historical setting. --- historical texts. --- historiography. --- lucan. --- medieval literary criticism. --- monarchy. --- new historicism. --- pharsalia. --- political threats. --- politics of the past. --- politics. --- poststructuralism. --- prose. --- pseudo turpin. --- reconciliation. --- royal history. --- royalist. --- social change. --- studies in cultural poetics.