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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? Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how Enlightenment Russians understood themselves. Opening with an illuminating discussion of the development of theater in eighteenth-century Russia, Wirtschafter goes on to explore dramatic representations of key social questions. Based on an examination of nearly 300 secular plays written during the last half of the century, she shows how dramas for the stage represented and debated important public issues—such as the nature of the common good, the structure of the patriarchal household, the duty of monarchs, and the role of the individual in society. Wirtschafter presents a striking reconstruction of the way educated Russians conceptualized a society beyond the immediate spheres of household and locality. Seeking to highlight problems of "social consciousness," she asks what Enlightenment Russians thought about social experience—and how their ideas related to actual social relationships in a society organized around serfdom and absolute monarchy. She portrays Russian Enlightenment culture on its own terms, while at the same time shedding light on broader problems of social order and political authority in imperial Russia.

Social classes --- Russia --- Social conditions. --- eighteenth-century Russia, Enlightenment Russians, Russian secular plays, Russian equality and justice.

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Enlightenment --- Political science --- Post-communism --- Postmodernism --- Right and left (Political science) --- Postcommunism --- Aufklärung --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- History --- Political aspects --- World politics --- Communism --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism

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Religious studies --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- 141.132 --- Religious thought --- -Religious thought --- -Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Religion --- Rationalisme. Intellectualisme. Universalisme. Aufklärung. Verlichting --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Intellectual life --- -Intellectual life --- -Religion --- -141.132 --- 141.132 Rationalisme. Intellectualisme. Universalisme. Aufklärung. Verlichting --- -Religious studies --- Enlightenment --- Pensée religieuse. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Pensée religieuse.

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Filosofie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval philosophy --- Medieval science --- Middeleeuwse filosofie --- Middeleeuwse wetenschap --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Science [Medieval ] --- Science médiévale --- Wetenschap [Middeleeuwse ] --- Civilization, Medieval --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Civilisation médiévale --- Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Scholasticism --- Enlightenment. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Civilisation médiévale --- Philosophie médiévale --- History

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Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America; and it investigates the nature and degree of their intellectual investment in the idea of a common European civilisation. Karen O'Brien combines the methodologies of literary criticism and intellectual history to explore debates about Enlightenments and the political uses of narrative. Where previous studies have emphasised the growth of nationalism in eighteenth-century literature, she reveals the development of cosmopolitan ways of thinking beyond national cultural issues.

Enlightenment --- Intellectual life --- Literature and history --- 82:93 --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Enlightenment. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature