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175 INTRODUCTION 1. L. P. Grossman, Seminarii po Dostoevskomu (Letchworth, U.K.: Prideaux Press, 1972), 16. 2. Robert Louis Jackson, The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and Nocturnes (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 70–114; quotation at 76. 3. Frances Nethercott, Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism : Criminal Justice, Politics, and the Public Sphere (London: Routledge, 2007). 4. Aileen Kelly, “Dostoevskii and the Divided Conscience,” Slavic Review 47, no. 2 (1988): 239–60; Malcolm Jones, Dostoevsky: The Novel of Discord (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 37–38. 5. Nancy Ruttenburg, Dostoevsky’s Democracy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008). 6. For a more recent restatement of this argument, see Robin Feuer Miller, Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Journey (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007). Also see Susan McReynolds, Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky ’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2008), 17–18 and 206, n. 63, for a helpful overview of positions on the relationship between Dostoevsky’s art and ideology, especially as it concerns his views on the Jews. 7. A. A. Gol’denveiser, V zashchitu prava: Stat’i i rechi (New York: Chekhov Publishing, 1952). 8. Kelly, “Dostoevskii and the Divided Conscience,” 242. 9. Miller, Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Journey, 10. 10. For a recent formulation of the first view, see Ivan A. Esaulov, “The Categories of Law and Grace in Dostoevsky’s Poetics” in Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition, ed. George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thomson (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001), 116–33; quotation at 129. For a recent restatement of the second view, see James Scanlan, Dostoevsky the Thinker (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002), 113. Scanlan stresses, however, that for Dostoevsky not all suffering had positive moral significance. Notes 176 Notes to Pages 7–9 11. Steven Cassedy, Dostoevsky’s Religion (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005); Susan McReynolds, Redemption and the Merchant God; Malcolm Jones, Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of the Religious Experience (London : Anthem Press, 2005). For another recent reassessment of Dostoevsky’s religious views, see Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2008). 12. Robert Belknap, The Genesis of “The Brothers Karamazov”: The Aesthetics , Ideology, and Psychology of Making a Text (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1990), 42. 13. Ibid., 43. 14. As opposed to, say, moral, scientific, or psychological. For a discussion of those other “laws” and their relationship to juridical law, see Derek Offord , “The Causes of Crime and the Meaning of Law: Crime and Punishment and Contemporary Radical Thought,” in New Essays on Dostoevsky, ed. Malcolm V. Jones and Garth Terry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 41–65. 15. See Esaulov, “The Categories of Law and Grace,” 118–20. Also see Carol Apollonio, Dostoevsky’s Secrets: Reading Against the Grain (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2009), 47–48. 16. See, for example, Harriet Murav, Russia’s Legal Fictions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), and Gary Rosenshield, Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and Russian Law (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). 17. See George Enteen, “Russian Literature Versus Legal Consciousness,” in States, Citizens, and Questions of Significance: Tenth Round Table on Law and Semiotics, ed. John Brigham and Roberta Kevelson (New York: Peter Lang, 1997), 41–48. 18. See O. S. Soina, “Ispoved’ kak nakazanie v romane ‘Brat’ia Karamazovy,’” in Dostoevsky: Materialy i issledovaniia, vol. 6 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1985), 129–36, especially 136. 19. Enteen, “Russian Literature Versus Legal Consciousness,” 45. 20. Esaulov, “The Categories of Law and Grace,” 117. 21. As Fridlender has shown, Raskolnikov’s view of law and morality owes much to the ideas of the German philosopher and natural scientist Karl Vogt. G.M. Fridlender, Realizm Dostoevskogo (Leningrad: Nauka, 1964), 153, 156– 57. Also see Offord, “The Causes of Crime and the Meaning of Law,” 55–59. 22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Memoirs from the House of the Dead, ed. Ronald Hingley, trans. Jessie Coulson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 17. (Hereafter cited as MHD.) This book has appeared under several other titles in English, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from the Dead House, and simply The House of the Dead. 23. Edward Wasiolek, “Crime and Punishment,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 177 Notes to Pages 10–14 “Crime and Punishment”: A Casebook, ed. Richard Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 51–74. Quotation at 56. 24. Andrzej Walicki, Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism...