The epistolary art of Catherine the Great

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The epistolary art of Catherine the Great

Kelsey Rubin-Detlev

（Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2019:08）

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2019

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Bibliography of works cited: p. 353-379

Includes index

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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. In this book, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev traces Catherine's development as a letter-writer, her networking strategies, and her image-making, demonstrating the centrality of ideas, literary experimentation, and manipulation of material form evident in Catherine's epistolary practice. Through this, Rubin-Detlev illustrates how Catherine's letters reveal her full engagement with the Enlightenment and further show how creatively she absorbed and responded to the ideas of her century. The letter was not merely a means by which the empress promoted Russia and its leader as European powers; it was a literary genre through which Catherine expressed her identity as a member of the social, political, and intellectual elite of her century.

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on dates, quotations and transliteration Introduction: Catherine the Great, letter-writing and the elite Enlightenment The letters of Catherine the Great The elite Enlightenment of Catherine the Great Chapter 1: Catherine the epistolarian Catherine's epistolary education: 1742-1762 Catherine's debut: 1762-1774 In transition: 1774-1781 Mastery: 1781-1789 An Enlightenment monarch in a Revolutionary world: 1789-1796 Catherine's epistolary geography Catherine and her contemporaries Chapter 2: Catherine the Great and eighteenth-century epistolary style Lettres galantes Lettres familieres Portrait and narrative letters Love letters Chapter 3: Fashioning the great Enlightenment monarch Gender and epistolary self-fashioning Catherine's image as an Enlightenment intellectual Fashioning greatness The correct exercise of military might Compensating for military heroism: flourishing provinces Patronage of the arts and sciences Ethical greatness The legislator Chapter 4: The play of authority in epistolary form Authority and linguistic mastery Authority and writing practices Epistolary etiquette Paper use Datelines Salutations Closers Foregoing etiquette Affection-seeking formulae Postscripts Signatures, addresses and attachments Chapter 5: Epistolary publicity and the audience for Catherine's correspondences The injunction against publication Building reputation through networks of epistolary sociability Managing celebrity through epistolary circulation From reputation to glory: writing for posterity by addressing gens de merite Chapter 6: Greatness contested: Catherine's epistolary response to the French Revolution Chronology of Catherine's epistolary actions against the French Revolution Old and new in Catherine's epistolary style Greatness contested: confronting the past Conclusion: new readers and new ways of reading Catherine's letters Bibliography of works cited Archival sources Editions of Catherine's letters Secondary sources: English Secondary sources: French Secondary sources: Russian Secondary sources: German Secondary sources: Italian Index

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