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. . . a major contribution to both the history and the literary understanding of the time. --Richard S. Wortman, author of The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18th to the 21st Centuries Russia's tsarist-era judicial reforms gave rise to lawyers whose courtroom eloquence and literary accomplishments ought to have been a source of national pride, but that is not what happened. Anna Schur goes deeply and skillfully into the source material to explain the surprisingly negative reaction expressed by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov, and other writers towards lawyers who tried to realize Russian literature's dream of a more just world. --Kathleen Parthe, author of Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines Schur's exceptional, pathbreaking, and deeply scholarly book joins a group of recent studies interrogating the relationship between literature and the law, and argues that the writer and the lawyer evolved from being early allies to becoming, in the public's view, the proverbial farmer and cowboy, a trend against which Russian trial lawyers, in particular, struggled to contend. Schur's fascinating, penetrating analysis renders her book essential reading for both Slavists and students of the law and literature more generally. Read it! It's a gamechanger. --Robin Feuer Miller, author of Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey

Schur's exceptional, pathbreaking, and deeply scholarly book joins a group of recent studies interrogating the relationship between literature and the law, and argues that the writer and the lawyer evolved from being early allies to becoming, in the public's view, the proverbial farmer and cowboy, a trend against which Russian trial lawyers, in particular, struggled to contend. Schur's fascinating, penetrating analysis renders her book essential reading for both Slavists and students of the law and literature more generally. Read it! It's a gamechanger. - Robin Feuer Miller, author of Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey . . . a major contribution to both the history and the literary understanding of the time. -Richard S. Wortman, author of The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18th to the 21st Centuries Russia's tsarist-era judicial reforms gave rise to lawyers whose courtroom eloquence and literary accomplishments ought to have been a source of national pride, but that is not what happened. Anna Schur goes deeply and skillfully into the source material to explain the surprisingly negative reaction expressed by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov, and other writers towards lawyers who tried to realize Russian literature's dream of a more just world. -Kathleen Parthe, author of Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines

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Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press).

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