‘He thinks he is inspired, and he is mad’: Superstition, Fanaticism, and Deceitful Folly in Catherine II’s Comedy The Siberian Shaman
During the last decades of the eighteenth century, knowledge about Siberia inspired Catherine II to create the main character of one of her comedies, The Siberian Shaman. Taking Foucault’s dispositif-concept as its theoretical premise, the present paper discusses the historical context in which The...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Aries
Year: 2024, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-133 |
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Freemasonry
B Theosophy B Rosicrucianism B Martinism B Shamanism B Cagliostro B Tsarist Russia B Catherine the Great |
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