The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia / / Marcus C. Levitt.
The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theolo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Prolegomena
- 2 The Moment of the Muses
- 3 Bogovidenie
- 4 The Staging of the Self
- 5 Virtue Must Advertise
- 6 The Seen, the Unseen, and the Obvious
- 7 The Icon That Started a Riot
- The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev's Journey
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index