Research Guides: Russian and East European Studies Resources: Literary Studies

Russian Literature

Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature.
People, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres that have formed Russian Literature. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography.
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. Includes "Women's Writing in Russia, pg. 35.
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."

Scribner Writer Series; European Writers.
Bio-critical essays on the lives and works of European writers. Entries include essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context.
Twayne's Authors Series.
Critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world, and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements. Includes Bulgakov, Bunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Lermontov, Nabakov, Pasternak, Pushkin, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy. and Turgenev.