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A Voltaire for Russia: A. P. Sumarokov's Journey from Poet-Critic to Russian Philosophe
Northwestern University Press, 2010 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6481-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-2696-1 Library of Congress Classification PG3318.Z9E95 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 891.78209
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In A Voltaire for Russia, Amanda Ewington examines the tumultuous literary career of Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov in relation to that of his slightly older French contemporary, Voltaire. Although largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Sumarokov was one of the founding fathers of modern Russian literature, renowned in his own time as a great playwright and prolific poet. A Voltaire for Russia polemicizes with long-accepted readings of Sumarokov as an imitator of French neoclassical poets, ultimately questioning the very notion of a Russian “classicism.” Ewington uncovers Sumarokov’s poignantly personal devotion to Voltaire as a new framework for understanding not only his works but also his literary allegiances and agenda, as he sets out to establish a Russian literature and cultivate a reading public. See other books on: 1694-1778 | Eastern | Russian & Soviet | Russian literature | Voltaire See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
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A Voltaire for Russia: A. P. Sumarokov's Journey from Poet-Critic to Russian Philosophe
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Northwestern University Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-0-8101-6481-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-2696-1
eISBN: 978-0-8101-6481-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-2696-1
In A Voltaire for Russia, Amanda Ewington examines the tumultuous literary career of Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov in relation to that of his slightly older French contemporary, Voltaire. Although largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Sumarokov was one of the founding fathers of modern Russian literature, renowned in his own time as a great playwright and prolific
poet.
A Voltaire for Russia polemicizes with long-accepted readings of Sumarokov as an imitator of French neoclassical poets, ultimately questioning the very notion of a Russian “classicism.” Ewington uncovers Sumarokov’s poignantly personal devotion to Voltaire as a new framework for understanding not only his works but also his literary allegiances and agenda, as he sets out to establish a Russian literature and cultivate a reading public.
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