The Letters and the Law : Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia /

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"Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict between writers and lawyers as a competition for cultural authority"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schur, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Droit dans la litterature.
Avocats dans la litterature.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Law in literature.
Lawyers in literature.
Lawyers > Russia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Poet with a Briefcase: The Russian Lawyer's Quest for the Professional Ideal
  • The Russian Writer against the Polish Lawyer: Art, Authority, and Authenticity in the Kronenberg Courtroom and Beyond
  • "The Vir Bonus" and "the Premier Amoureux": The Lawyer's Eloquence under Attack
  • "The Novel of Circumstantial Evidence": Reinterpreting "A Judicial Error"
  • Conclusion.

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