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Recalling Russia’s Eighteenth Century: Imaginative Literature as Mnemonic Praxis
In: Russian HistoryThis review article deals with Luba Golburt’s award-winning monograph on the literary treatment of Russia’s eighteenth century. After situating Golburt’s book within the context of recent publications on eighteenth-century Russian studies, the reviewer offers a summary of the pros and cons of the author’s methodological approach. The reviewer argues that The First Epoch constitutes a landmark contribution to both the ongoing reevaluation of early modern Russian history and to the scholarly study of the confluence between literary and mnemonic praxis.
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See, for example, “Forum: Divides and Ends: Periodizing the Early Modern in Russian History,” Slavic Review 69:2 (Summer 2010), 398–447; Paul Bushkovitch, “Change and Culture in Early Modern Russia,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 291–316; Nancy Kollmann, “A Deeper Early Modern: A Response to Paul Bushkovitch,” ibid., 317–329
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Ronald Vroon, “Poetry Speaks to Power: Panegyric Responses to Peter III, Catherine II and the Coup d'État of 1762,” Russian Literature, Volume 75, Issues 1–4 (2014), 563–590, here 563–4.
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A.V. Sviatoslavskiĭ, Istoriia Rossii v zerkale pamiati: Mekhanizmy formirovaniia istoricheskikh obrazov (Moskva: Drevlekhranilishche, 2013), 11, points out that the works of Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), the French sociologist hailed as the “founding father” of the study of “collective memory,” began to appear in Russian translation only at the very beginning of the twenty-first century. See Moris Khal'bvaks, Sotsial’nye klassy i morfologiia (Moscow; SPb.: Institut eksperimental'noi sotsiologii; Aleteia, 2000); idem, “Kollektivnaia i istoricheskaia pamiat’,” trans. Mikhail Gabovich, in Pamiat’ o voĭne 60 let spustia: Rossiia, Germaniia, Evropa, ed. Mikhail Gabovich (Biblioteka zhurnala “Neprikosnovennyĭ zapas”) (Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005), 16–50; idem, Sotsial’nye ramki pamiati, trans. and intro. by S. N. Zenkin (Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2007).
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Recalling Russia’s Eighteenth Century: Imaginative Literature as Mnemonic Praxis
In: Russian HistoryThis review article deals with Luba Golburt’s award-winning monograph on the literary treatment of Russia’s eighteenth century. After situating Golburt’s book within the context of recent publications on eighteenth-century Russian studies, the reviewer offers a summary of the pros and cons of the author’s methodological approach. The reviewer argues that The First Epoch constitutes a landmark contribution to both the ongoing reevaluation of early modern Russian history and to the scholarly study of the confluence between literary and mnemonic praxis.
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| Full Text Views | 201 | 2 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 15 | 2 | 0 |