Russia, Europe and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Proceedings of the Xth International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia

Rodolphe Baudin, Alexeï Evstratov, Paul Keenan, Vladislav Réjoutski

• Publisher: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9791034403561
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

This volume offers a selection of contributions to the tenth international conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, held in 2018 at Strasbourg University, France, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Study Group's founding. The papers published in this volume cover Russia's "long eighteenth century", from the reign of Peter I (1682-1725) to the reign of Alexander I (1801-1825). The eight main sections reflect the interdisciplinary approach of the Study Group. They focus on: the historiographical evolution of eighteenth-century Russian studies over the last fifty years; the practices of power by the Russian state; the geography of contacts and trade; the work of cultural brokers between Russia and Europe; the writing of subjectivity; gender in historical and literary context; literary practices and traditions; and the relationship between literature and power. The afterword is a retrospective of the Study Group's history by its President, Professor Anthony G. Cross.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• FIRST PART. Rethinking the Paradigms
• SECOND PART. State and Power Practices
• THIRD PART. Geographies of Contact and Trade Practices
• FOURTH PART. Brokers and the Circulation of Cultural Practices
• FIFTH PART. Reflecting Personal Experience and Writing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Russia
• SIXTH PART. Being and Writing Female
• SEVENTH PART. Literary Practices and Traditions
• EIGHTH PART. Literature and Politics: Forms of Literary Discourse
• Afterword
• French Abstracts/Résumés en français