Description: "Early Modern Russian Letters" brings together 20 essays by Levitt, a leading American scholar of 18th-century Russia. The essays concern a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature.
Review Quotes: "Professor Marcus Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature, crowns years spent studying poet and playwright Alexander Sumarokov with a new collection of articles, some now made available in English for the first time. Containing a series of engaging essays on various aspects of Sumarokov's oeuvre together with a variety of other studies concerning Russian culture, literature, history and philosophy, this volume will serve as an indispensable guide to all those studying eighteenth-century Russia for many years to come."