Dostoyevsky’s Underground: Underground and Unredeemed

Midterm Review

1. Romanticism

1. Classic and Romantic
2. Naïve and Sentimental
3. Dueling, Revisited

2. Rude Servants and Sentimental Heroines

1. Apollon’s Rebellion
2. Liza’s Redemption
3. The Antihero

3. Rousseau’s The Social Contract

1. Political Philosophy
2. The State of Nature
3. Noble Savage
4. The Contract

4. Kant’s "What is Enlightenment?"

1. "Sapere aude!"
2. Public and Private Selves
3. The Appeal to Frederick

5. Büchner’s Woyzeck

1. Radicals and Revolutions
2. The Anti-Aristotle and the Antihero
3. Fraudulent Authority
4. Responsibility and Self-consciousness

6. Austen’s Emma

1. The Social Self
2. The Domestic Sphere
3. Manners and Morals
4. The Didactic Novel
5. The Upper-Class Social Contract

7. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground

1. The Narrative Antihero
2. Freedom, Equality, and Rank
3. Literary Lives