Author: Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡)Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw
Author: Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias
Author: Ekaterina R. DaškovaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias: Written by Herself: Comprising Letters of the Empress and Other Correspondence
Author: Jekaterina Romanovna Daškova (kněžna)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Athenæum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Spectator
Author: The Princess & the Patriot
Author: Sue Ann PrincePublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context
Author: Ileana BairdPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840
Author: DR ALEXIS. WOLFPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century. The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of middle-ranking women's literary practices and experiences of travel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Their manuscripts are notable for their vivid portrayal of the era's political conflicts, capturing a flight from Ireland during the Irish Rebellion (1798), time spent in Paris during the Peace of Amiens (1801-03), and extended residences in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. However, in their accounts of these key European events, the Wilmots' manuscripts, and published work, showcase their participation in a startling range of self-educating activities, including travel writing, biography, antiquarianism, early ethnographic observation, language acquisition, translation practices and editorial work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the collaborative relationships formed by women participating in cosmopolitan networks beyond the typical locations of the Grand Tour. Across their travels, the sisters met, engaged with, and learned from numerous key women of the time, including Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, Margaret King, Lady Mount Cashell and Helen Maria Williams. In this first full-length study to focus on the literary and cultural exchanges surrounding the Wilmot sisters, Wolf showcases how manuscript circulation, coterie engagement and transnational travel provided avenues for women to engage with the intellectual discourses from which they were often excluded.
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Author: Ekaterina R. DaškovaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"This memoir tell the story of a woman who at age eighteen played an important role in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to the throne. The relationship between these two women, often tense, is a central theme throughout this story. Dashkova, occupying the highly unusual position of both stateswoman and mother, also reveals her own path between the demands and limitations of the private and public spheres of her society. She provides a view of the expectations of Russian aristocratic women, the possibilities available to them, and the ways in which gender roles were conceived in the eighteenth century."--[book cover].