The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

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THE VISUAL DOMINANT IN Eighteenth-CenturyRussia inEighteenth-CenturyRussia Marcus C.Levitt NIU PRESS DeKalb THE VISUAL DOMINANT © 2011 by Northern Illinois University Published by the Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 Manufactured in the United States using acid-free paper. All Rights Reserved Design by Shaun Allshouse Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levitt, Marcus C., 1954– The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia / Marcus C. Levitt. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87580-442-2 (clothbound : acid-free paper) 1. Russian literature—18th century—History and criticism. 2. Visual perception in literature. 3. Vision in literature. I. Title. PG3007.L486 2011 891.709’002—dc23 2011016778 Etching by Giacomo Zatta after Pietro Novelli, “Tsar Peter the Great Founds the City of St. Petersburg in Ingria, at the mouth of the Neva on the Baltic, in the Spring of the Year 1703” (1797), published by Antonio Zatta e Figli, Venice. 36.6 x 40.8 cm. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To Betsy and Jesse—you light up my life! ...