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French and Russian in imperial Russia. Volume 2, Language attitudes and identity / edited by Derek Offord, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Gesine Argent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Offord, Derek, Author.
- Series:
- Russian language and society.
- Russian language and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Russia--18th century.
- French language.
- French language--Russia--19th century.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Russia--Language.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Russia--History--1613-1917.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This is the second volume in a two volume set. set which explores the profound impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Volume 2 provides insights into the ways in which bilingualism was negotiated at court and among the cosmopolitan high nobility in Imperial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment and the subsequent Romantic age, when cultural nationalists began to associate national essence with the monolingual peasantry. It discusses the linguistic means by which Russian social, political and cultural identities began to be created and explores the part played by foreign language use in stimulating the enrichment and standardisation of the Russian vernacular and in encouraging the development of a firm sense of national identity and early Russian nationalism.
- Contents:
- French and Russian in Imperial Russia; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Note on dates, transliteration and other editorial practices; Abbreviations Used in the Text, Notes and References; Dates of Reigns in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia; Introduction; 1 The Pan-European Justification of a Multilingual Russian Society in the Late Eighteenth Century; 2 Princess Dashkova and the Politics of Language in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 3 3 Plating 'Russian Gold' with 'French Copper': Aleksandr Sumarokov and Eighteenth-Century Franco-Russian Translation
- 4 Francophone Culture in Russia Seen through the Russian and French Periodical Press5 Linguistic Gallophobia in Russian Comedy; 6 The Linguistic Debate between Karamzin and Shishkov: Evaluating Russian-French Language Contact; 7 Language and Conservative Politics in Alexandrine Russia; 8 Seduction, Subterfuge, Subversion: Ivan Krylov's Rewriting of Molière; 9 The French Language of Fashion in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia; 10 Oтечество, отчизна, родина: Russian 'Translations' of Patrie in the Napoleonic Period; 11 Treatment of Francophonie in Pushkin's Prose Fiction
- 12 Love à la mode: Russian Words and French SourcesConclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-9554-0
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