The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

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The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

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Governing with the Literary Pen

Written by Vera Proskurina

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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. These texts were carefully prepared, their publications and stage productions executed magnificently. As a rule, the most significant works were translated into French, German, and, in some cases, English. European readers, as well as the Russian public, were expected to be attentive witnesses to, and happy consumers of, the monarch’s compositions. Amongst rulers, the literary productivity of the Russian empress has no analogue in history. This volume is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great.

Dr. Vera Proskurina currently works at Emory University. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on Russian literature and the intellectual history of Russia. Her first book, Mikhail Gershenzon: his Life and Myth (1998), was devoted to the Jewish writer and thinker in the first decades of the 20th century. Her next books related to the culture & political symbolism of the 18th century: Myth of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II (2006), Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (2011), Catherine II’s Empire of Letters: Literature as Politics (2017).

ISBN-13: 9798887191768
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: 20 June 2023
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Language: English