The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great - Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey
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The first to analyse comprehensively the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, this study traces Catherine's development as a letter-writer, her networking strategies, her image-making, and the materiality of her letters. It argues that her letters were her literary masterpiece and a key means by which she participated in the intellectual and social life of the Enlightenment.

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The first to analyse comprehensively the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, this study traces Catherine's development as a letter-writer, her networking strategies, her image-making, and the materiality of her letters. It argues that her letters were her literary masterpiece and a key means by which she participated in the intellectual and social life of the Enlightenment.
Autorenporträt
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Russia in European context, in particular correspondence, women's writing, and Catherine the Great. She is the co-translator with Andrew Kahn of 'Catherine the Great, Selected Letters' (Oxford University Press, 2018).