{"product_id":"radical-empathy-in-nineteenth-century-russian-literature-part-i","title":"590. Radical Empathy in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Part I","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-Century Russian literature is marked by an intense and abiding interest in the lives of the downtrodden and disenfranchised lower classes. Beginning with Alexander Radishchev’s \u003cem\u003eJourney from St. Petersburg to Moscow\u003c\/em\u003e, serfs, the poor, subordinated bureaucrats, and distressed urban dwellers become the obsessive focus of the Russian literary imagination. The literary effort to understand the subjective experience of the neglected and oppressed classes inspires a tradition of radical empathy that becomes the creative wellspring of the great imaginative works of this period. Excerpts will be distributed in advance of the class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlexander Radishchev, Excerpts from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJourney from St. Petersburg to Moscow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNikolai Gogol, Excerpts from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead Souls \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cspan\u003e“The Overcoat”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIvan Turgenev, Stories from\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSketches from a Hunter’s Album \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cspan\u003e“Mumu”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky, Excerpts from \u003cem\u003eNotes from a Dead House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Frick Estate Lectures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52295052132635,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thefrickestatelectures.org\/products\/radical-empathy-in-nineteenth-century-russian-literature-part-i","provider":"The Frick Estate Lectures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}