Literary Criticism
The following databases contain author profiles, topic & work overviews, and scholarly articles.
- Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new windowBiographies, literary & cultural analysis, work & topic overviews, selected full-text primary sources (short stories, poetry, speeches, plays, and essays), and more. Simultaneously searches Gale's Literature Criticism Series and most of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new windowAuthor pages, literary criticism, primary sources in full-text (selected poetry, drama and prose), reviews, and reference sources.
Encyclopedias
Reference Guide to Russian Literature.Profiles of writers and important works of Russian literature, from the Kievan period to the post-communist writing of the Russian Federation with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Routledge Companion to Russian Literature.Poetry, drama and the Russian novel from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Includes chapter, "Women's Writing in Russia."
- Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new windowIntroductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
