1. Sumarokov: Life and Works

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Part One. SUMAROKOV AND THE LITERA RY PROCESS OF HIS TIME
5. Preface 3
6. 1. Sumarokov: Life and Works 6
7. 2. Sumarokov’s Reading at the Academy of Sciences Library 22
8. 3. Censorship and Provocation: Th e Publishing History of Sumarokov’s “Two Epistles” 44
9. 4. Slander, Polemic, Criticism: Trediakovskii’s “Letter...from a Friend to a Friend” of 1750 and the Problem of Creating Russian Literary Criticism 64
10. 5. Sumarokov’s Russianized “Hamlet”: Texts and Contexts 76
11. 6. Sumarokov’s Drama “Th e Hermit”: On the Generic and Intellectual Sources of Russian Classicism 103
12. 7. “Th e First Russian Ballet”: Sumarokov’s “Sanctuary of Virtue” (1759) Defining a New Dance 119
13. 8. Was Sumarokov a Lockean Sensualist? On Locke’s Reception in Eighteenth-Century Russia 158
14. 9. Barkoviana and Russian Classicism 173
15. 10. Th e Illegal Staging of Sumarokov’s Sinav and Truvor in 1770 and the Problem of Authorial Status in Eighteenth-Century Russia 190
16. 11. Sumarokov and the Unified Poetry Book: His Triumphal Odes and Love Elegies Th rough the Prism of Tradition 218
17. 12. Th e Barbarians Among Us, or Sumarokov’s Views on Orthography 248
18. Part Two. VISUALITY AND ORTHODOXY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN CULTURE
19. Preface 267
20. 13. Th e Rapprochement Between “Secular” and “Religious” in Mid to Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture 269
21. 14. The “Obviousness” of the Truth in Eighteenth-Century Russian Th ought 294
22. 15. Th e Theological Context of Lomonosov’s “Evening” and “Morning Meditations on God’s Majesty” 305
23. 16. The Ode as Revelation: On the Orthodox Theological Context of Lomonosov’s Odes 320
24. 17. An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture 339
25. 18. The Polemic with Rousseau over Gender and Sociability in E. S. Urusova’s Polion (1774) 358
26. 19. Virtue Must Advertise: Self Presentation in Dashkova’s Memoirs 379
27. 20. The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev’s Journey fr om Petersburg to Moscow 398
28. Sources 413
29. Index 415