Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter

Social Identity in Imperial Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780875807287
• ISBN-10: 0875807283
• Artikelnr.: 42994004

Autorenporträt

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1998, she is the author of numerous articles and several books, including most recently The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater .

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Theater and Society
2. The Social Meaning of Plays
3. The Patriarchal Household
4. Civic Society
5. The Common Good
6. Moral Monarchy
Conclusion—The Individual in Society and Polity
Appendix—Biographies of Authors
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index