Nikolai Karamzin

Letters of a Russian Traveller

Buch | Softcover

603 Seiten

2003
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-0-7294-0811-0 (ISBN)

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The Letters of a Russian traveller (1797) are the most important expression of Enlightenment thought from the pen of a Russian writer.

The Letters of a Russian traveller (1797) are the most important expression of Enlightenment thought from the pen of a Russian writer. In 1789 Nikolai Karamzin (1765-1826), a leading historian and author of sentimental fiction, embarked on an unprecedented intellectual Grand Tour. His itinerary, which took him from St Petersburg through Germany to Revolutionary France and finally to England, served as the basis for this semi-fictional narrative. The narrator visits among others Kant, Herder and Wieland, makes pilgrimage to the resting places of Voltaire and Rousseau, and observes both the revolutionary Assemblée and the English Parliament at first hand. The resulting work is one in which fiction, philosophy, literary and art criticism, historical and biographical writing coalesce, producing nothing less than a wholesale anthropology and evaluation of the Enlightenment from the unfamiliar perspective of a Russian intellectual writing after the outbreak of the French Revolution.

This is the first ever complete translation of Karamzin’s work into English. The introduction and concluding study explore the intersection of Russian and European intellectual and literary movements, and illuminate questions about travel literature; history of the book and the growth of readership; the self as a philosophical subject; the growth of perceptions of the public sphere; the pre-Romantic fascination with funerary monuments and theories of sociability. This book is aimed at both Russian specialists and Enlightenment scholars who do not read Russian.

Introduction: Karamzin and the creation of a readership

Nikolai Karamzin, Letters of a Russian traveller

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Karamzin’s discourses of Enlightenment

i. Literary identity

ii. The self as philosophical subject

iii. The visual subject: social order and the aesthetic imagination

iv. The visual subject: deconstructing the neoclassical

v. Narratives of feeling: imagination and disorder

vi. Going public: Karamzin’s cultural spaces

vii. Conversation

viii. Mediating private and national histories

ix. Sociability and mourning

x. Towards the public sphere: monuments and national celebration

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2003
Reihe/Serie	Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2003:04
Zusatzinfo	8 illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	880 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-7294-0811-6 / 0729408116
ISBN-13	978-0-7294-0811-0 / 9780729408110
Zustand	Neuware