Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya and the Radical Camp

• In Event: 19th-Century Women Writers in Context II: Khvoshchinskaia and Teffi in Radical, Generational, and Animal Contexts

Abstract

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya might be considered a kind of “fellow traveler” to her famed radical contemporaries—Chernyshevsky, Dobroliubov, Pomialovsky, and others. While she never situated herself as a part of the radical camp—and from the viewpoint of this camp itself, was never sufficiently radical—her work shares substantial themes and sympathies with that of Chernyshevsky and Pomialovsky. Alongside Pomialovsky, she was one of few writers in the early 1850s and 1860s to depict seminarians in a positive light, in her seminarian novel Bariton.

Author

• Helen R Stuhr-Rommereim, U of St. Andrews (UK)