Table des matières
Damiano Rebecchini et Raffaella Vassena
IntroductionPart I. The Long Eighteenth Century
Daniel C. Waugh
How Might We Write a History of Reading in Pre-Eighteenth-Century Russia?- 1. Writing and its uses in early Russia—the first centuries
- 2. Books and reading in the Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery
- 3. The printing press: an agent of cultural change in Muscovy?
- 4. Lay literacy and reading in Muscovy
- 5. Libraries
- 6. The study of manuscript miscellanies as a window into Russian reading
Gary Marker
The Eighteenth Century: From Reading Communities to the Reading Public- Introduction
- 1. Re-periodization: reading and the early modern
- 2. Legibility and visibility
- 3. Literacy, learning to read, schooling
- 4. Diverse practices of reading and writing
- 5. The language(s) of reading: Russian vs. polyglossia
- 6. Reading and self-inscription: reading communities and publics
- 6.1. Reading Communities
- 6.2. A monastic republic of letters
- 6.3. The making of a reading public
- 6.4. Subscribers and subscription lists
- Conclusion: reading, Russia, the early modern, and De Certeau
Kirill Ospovat
Reforming Subjects: Poetics and Politics of Reading in Early Eighteenth-Century RussiaRodolphe Baudin
Reading in the Times of Catherine IIEkaterina Kislova
What, How, and Why the Orthodox Clergy Read in Eighteenth-Century Russia- 1. Difficulties in reconstructing the clergy’s reading
- 2. ‘Professional’ clerical literature in various languages
- 3. Sermons and spiritual writings
- 4. Russian fiction and literature translated into Russian
- 5. Literature in foreign languages
- 5.1. Polish Literature
- 5.2. French and German books
- Conclusion