Book Launch: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ Image This book examines the functions of French in various spheres, domains and genres. The two volume set explores the profound impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book contributes to knowledge of the development of national self-consciousness in Russia. It extends awareness of the importance of francophonie in European culture, and introduces readers to the discussion of the positive and negative effects of bilingualism or multilingualism and biculturalism or multiculturalism. Speaker biography Prof Derek Offord is an Emeritus Professor (the Univer sity of Bristol); he is a specialist in pre-revolutionary Russian history, thought and literature and in language usage and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia. He has published books on the revolutionary movement, on the debates in the nineteenth-century intelligentsia and on the ways in which Russian writers travelling in the West used their travels to shape notions of national identity. He co-edited a documentary history of Russian thought in 1987 and a new History of Russian Thought published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. From 2011 to 2015 he led a multidisciplinary project funded by the AHRC on the history of the French language in Russia from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. He is also the author of two widely used books on the modern Russian language. Oct 20 2015 18.30 - 19.30 Book Launch: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ A talk by Professor Derek Offord of Bristol University on the new book: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ Blackwell’s Bookshop 53-62 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1YS Find the venue
Book Launch: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ Image This book examines the functions of French in various spheres, domains and genres. The two volume set explores the profound impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book contributes to knowledge of the development of national self-consciousness in Russia. It extends awareness of the importance of francophonie in European culture, and introduces readers to the discussion of the positive and negative effects of bilingualism or multilingualism and biculturalism or multiculturalism. Speaker biography Prof Derek Offord is an Emeritus Professor (the Univer sity of Bristol); he is a specialist in pre-revolutionary Russian history, thought and literature and in language usage and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia. He has published books on the revolutionary movement, on the debates in the nineteenth-century intelligentsia and on the ways in which Russian writers travelling in the West used their travels to shape notions of national identity. He co-edited a documentary history of Russian thought in 1987 and a new History of Russian Thought published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. From 2011 to 2015 he led a multidisciplinary project funded by the AHRC on the history of the French language in Russia from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. He is also the author of two widely used books on the modern Russian language. Oct 20 2015 18.30 - 19.30 Book Launch: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ A talk by Professor Derek Offord of Bristol University on the new book: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ Blackwell’s Bookshop 53-62 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1YS Find the venue
Oct 20 2015 18.30 - 19.30 Book Launch: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’ A talk by Professor Derek Offord of Bristol University on the new book: ‘French and Russian in Imperial Russia’
