Russian 272 - Wellesley College
Politically Correct:
Ideology and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel
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Il’ia Repin: Study for “Arrest of a Propagandist” (1879)
Russian 272
Wellesley College
Spring 2003
T. P. Hodge, Associate Professor
Russian Department, Founders Hall 416
Office hours: TF12:30-3:00, & by appointment;
after 7 May, by appointment only (thodge@wellesley.edu)
Office phone: 781-283-3563; home phone: 781-239-1584 (before 8:00 p.m.!)
Required texts (available at College Bookstore; also on 3-hour reserve at Clapp Library):
A. I. Hérzen: Who Is to Blame? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
I. S. Turgénev: Fathers and Sons (Norton Critical edn.). New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
I. S. Turgénev: On the Eve. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950.
I. S. Turgénev: Rudin. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975.
I. A. Goncharóv: Oblomov. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1954.
N. G. Chernyshévsky: What Is to Be Done? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
F. M. Dostoévskii: Notes from Underground (Norton Critical edn.), 2nd edn. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
A Chrestomathy of Russian Ideological Fiction and Criticism
• Bound copy of course reader may be purchased from Nina Kochergin, FND 416 (make $20 check out to Russian Department, Wellesley College)
• Online version of this course reader may be accessed as an e-reserve via FirstClass
Recommended text: Joseph Frank: Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1990.
Texts for oral reports (on 3-hour reserve at Clapp Library or the Music Library):
Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. New
York: Knopf, 1966.
Galya Diment: Goncharov’s Oblomov: A Critical Companion (Northwestern/AATSEEL Critical
Companions to Russian Literature, vol. 8). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998.
Ehre, Milton. Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1973.
Gillespie, Michael Allen. Nihilism before Nietzsche. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Katz, Michael R. Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. Hanover,
NH: University Press of New England, 1984.
Kelly, Aileen M. Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Kelly, Aileen M. Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Lampert, E. Sons Against Fathers: Studies in Russian Radicalism and Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Malia, Martin. Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812-1855. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Mathewson, R. W. The Positive Hero in Russian Literature, 2nd edn. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1975.
Paperno, Irina. Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Pomper, Philip. The Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson,
1970.
Rzhevsky, Nicholas. Russian Literature and Ideology: Herzen, Dostoevsky, Leontiev, Tolstoy,
Fadeev. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Terras, Victor. Belinskij and Russian Literary Criticism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
Todd III, William Mills. Literature and Society in Imperial Russia, 1800-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978.
Taruskin, Richard. Opera and Drama as Preached and Practiced in the 1860s. Ann Arbor: UMI
Research Press, 1981.
Walicki, Andrzej. The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-
Century Russian Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Walicki, Andrzej. A History of Russian Thought From the Enlightenment to Marxism. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1979.
Course requirements:
1) Conscientious participation in class discussions and daily reading of e-mail
2) One short (approx. 10 min.) oral presentation, with a partner, on a work of criticism (see Schedule below)
3) One stint as discussion leader on the topic suggested for a particular day after 7 February (see Schedule below)
4) Careful perusal of the handout entitled “Common Mistakes to Avoid in Formal Writing”
5) Two essays (2000 words each; due 14 March and 29 April) of analysis, criticism, interpretation or history of the literature and criticism we read
6) Take-home final examination (2 ½ hours); exam will be handed out in class on 29 April
Grading:
Course grades will be determined according to the following criteria, weighted as indicated:
25% First essay
25% Second essay
25% Oral report and discussion leadership
25% Final examination
SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1
28 Jan. Introduction
31 Jan. Read Chaadaev’s “First Letter on the Philosophy of History” (Chrestomathy)
Read Berlin’s “The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia” (Berlin, pp. 114-35)
Discussion: Roots of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia
WEEK 2
4 Feb. Read Herzen’s “Young Moscow” (Chrestomathy)
Read Berlin’s “German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow” (Berlin, pp. 136-49)
Read Hegel excerpt provided by Prof. de Warren
Guest lecture: Prof. Nicolas de Warren (Philosophy Department) on Hegel
Discussion: German philosophy and a typology of the Moscow intelligentsia
7 Feb. Read Berlin’s “Alexander Herzen” (Berlin, pp. 186-209)
Read Michael Katz’s Introduction to Who Is to Blame? (pp. 15-39)
Read Herzen’s Who Is to Blame? (pp. 45-122)
Discussion: Herzen as liberal-revolutionary; genesis and ideological orientation of Herzen’s novel
WEEK 3
11 Feb. Read Herzen’s Who Is to Blame? (pp. 123-202)
Read Joseph Frank on Malia on Herzen (Frank, Russian Prism, pp. 219-24)
Oral report on Malia (chapters 10-11, pp. 218-77)
Discussion: Philosophical and literary underpinnings of Herzen’s novel
14 Feb. ( HODGE LECTURING AT SMITHSONIAN — NO CLASS (
WEEK 4
18 Feb. ( MONDAY SCHEDULE — NO CLASS (
21 Feb. Read Herzen’s Who Is to Blame? (pp. 203-89)
Read Belinskii: “A View on Russian Literature in 1847: Part 2,” especially pp. 436-49 (Chrestomathy)
Oral report on Rzhevsky (chapter on Herzen)
Discussion: Resolution of the radical hero’s fate and Belinskii’s reaction
WEEK 5
25 Feb. Read Belinskii’s “Letter to Gogol” (Chrestomathy)
Read Berlin’s “Vissarion Belinsky” (Berlin, pp. 150-85)
Discussion: Belinskii’s influence on the role of Russian writer and critic
28 Feb. Read Turgenev’s “Khor and Kalinych” (Chrestomathy)
Recall Belinskii’s comments in “A View on Russian Literature in 1847: Part 2” (Chrestomathy, pp. 473-4)
Read Turgenev’s “Diary of a Superfluous Man” (Chrestomathy)
Read Berlin’s “Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament” (Berlin, pp. 261-276)
Discussion: Turgenev’s liberalism and the genesis of the superfluous man
WEEK 6
4 Mar. Read Turgenev’s On the Eve (pp. 21-129)
Read Turgenev’s “Hamlet and Don Quixote” (Chrestomathy)
Oral report on Billington’s conception of Russia under Nicholas I (Billington, pp. 307-58)
Discussion: On the nature of the eve
7 Mar. Read Turgenev’s On the Eve (pp. 130-231)
Read Dobroliubov’s “When Will the Day Come?” (Chrestomathy)
Oral report on Dobroliubov’s life and work (in Lampert)
Discussion: Dobroliubov’s critical yearning
OPTIONAL FIRST DRAFT OF FIRST ESSAY DUE BY CLASS TIME
WEEK 7
10 Mar. Prof. Jehanne Gheith (Slavic Department, Duke University) will deliver a public lecture at 4:15 p.m. in the Library Lecture Room on representations of women characters and women writers in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Prof. Gheith is an internationally acknowledged expert on Russian women’s fiction. Attendance is mandatory. Besides, you’ll love Prof. Gheith.
11 Mar. Read Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (pp. 3-55)
Read Berlin’s “Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament” (Berlin, pp. 276-305)
Oral report on Kelly’s analysis of Turgenev’s nihilism (Kelly, Toward Another Shore, pp. 91-118)
Discussion: What is nihilism?
14 Mar. Read Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (pp. 55-110)
Discussion: What is Turgenev’s ideology?
FIRST ESSAY DUE BY CLASS TIME
17-21 Mar. ( SPRING BREAK — NO CLASSES (
Read Oblomov and What Is to Be Done?
WEEK 8
25 Mar. Read Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (pp. 110-57)
Read Pisarev’s “Bazarov” (Fathers and Sons edn., pp. 185-206)
Oral report on Brown’s “Pisarev and the Transformation of Two Russian Novels” (Todd, pp. 151-70)
Discussion: What does Pisarev’s nihilism tell us?
28 Mar. Read Goncharov’s Oblomov (pp. 13-152)
Oral report on Goncharov’s life and ideas (Ehre, pp. 3-97)
Discussion: Oblomov and the aesthetics of indolence
WEEK 9
1 Apr. Read Goncharov’s Oblomov (pp. 153-282)
Oral report on Rufus Mathewson’s Positive Hero
Read Frank on Mathewson (Frank, Russian Prism, pp. 75-82)
Discussion: Is Oblomov a positive hero?
4 Apr. Read Goncharov’s Oblomov (pp. 283-485)
Discussion: The Weltanschauung of Stolz and Oblomov
WEEK 10
8 Apr. Dobroliubov: What is Oblomovshchina? (Chrestomathy)
Oral report on Diment’s analysis of Goncharov’s writerly technique
Discussion: What in the world is Oblomovshchina?
11 Apr. Read Katz and Wagner’s Introduction to What Is to Be Done? (pp. 1-36)
Read Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? (pp. 39-139)
Read Frank on Katz’s translation (Russian Prism, pp. 213-18)
Discussion: Is Chernyshevskii’s question different from Herzen’s?
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WEEK 11
15 Apr. Read Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? (pp. 139-236)
Oral report on Katz’s Dreams and the Unconscious
Discussion: What are Vera Pavlovna’s dreams?
18 Apr. Read Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? (pp. 236-386)
Oral report on Gillespie, Nihilism before Nietzsche (chapter 5)
Discussion: Is Chernyshevskii a nihilist?
WEEK 12
22 Apr. Read Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? (pp. 386-445)
Oral report on Chernyshevskii’s The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality (Chrestomathy)
Discussion: What is Chernyshevskii’s aesthetics?
OPTIONAL FIRST DRAFT OF SECOND ESSAY DUE BY CLASS TIME
25 Apr. Read Dostoevskii’s Notes from Underground (pp. 3-28)
Oral report on Rzhevsky (chapter on Dostoevsky)
Discussion: Is Chernyshevskii to blame? What is to be done with Dostoevskii?
WEEK 13
29 Apr. Read Dostoevskii’s Notes from Underground (pp. 29-89)
Read Frank on Notes from Underground (Notes from Underground edn., pp. 202-37)
Discussion: The annihilation of Nihilism
SECOND ESSAY DUE BY CLASS TIME
19 May RUSSIAN 272 TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAMINATION DUE in Hodge’s box in the Russian Dept. (FND 416) by 4:30 p.m.
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