Optional Readings on reserve, in Reference (R), or with
e-access
- Cornwell, Neil. Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998 [Reference: R 891.703 R332].
- ———. The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature. New York: Routledge,
2001 [891.709 R869].
- Jones, Malcolm V. and Robin Feuer Miller, eds. The
Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998 [891.7309 C178]. Electronic access through the Davidson
College library (username & password required for off-campus access).
- Layton, Susan. Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus
from Pushkin to Tolstoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
[891.709 L429r].
- Millar, James R., ed. Encyclopedia
of Russian History. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
- Moses, Charles A. The Cambridge History of Russian Literature.
Rev. edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 [891.709 C178 1992].
- Obolensky, Dimitri, ed. The Heritage of Russian Verse. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1965 [891.71012h]. (This volume presents canonical
Russian poems from the Medieval period through the 1960s in Russian with literal
English prose translations. Highly recommended for students studying Russian).
- Reyfman, Irina. Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian
Culture and Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 [891.709R457r]
- Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1985 [Reference R 891.7 H236].
- ———. A History of Russian Literature. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1991 [891.709 T324h]
- Todd, William Mills. Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology,
Institutions, and Narrative. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986. [891.7 P98xto]
Pushkin
- russianpoetry.net:
poems with text and audio in Russian and English, timelines, related links.
- Nabokov, Vladimir. Eugene Onegin: A Novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
Commentary and Translation [vol. 1 (translation) and vol. 2 (commentary)
on reserve, PG3347.E8 N3 1990]
- Vitale, Serena. Pushkin's Button. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1999. [853 V836b-T] (Non-fiction, but written with a novelistic flair,
this book tells the story of the events leading up to Pushkin's fatal duel).
- Debreczeny, Paul. Social Functions of Literature: Alexander Pushkin
and Russian Culture. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. [PG3356 .D43 1997]
Gogol
- Title
Page to Dead Souls: Link to image of Gogol's original artwork for the
cover of his novel, with helpful explanatory notes by Dr. Gita Hammarberg
at Macalester College.
- Dead
Souls: Full text in Russian
- Nabokov, V. Nikolai Gogol. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1944
[891.7 G61zn].
Dostoevsky
- W. J. Leatherbarrow, ed. The
Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. Great resource with chapters on different aspects of Dostoevsky's oeuvre.
Electronic access through the Davidson College library (username & password
required for off-campus access).
- Dostoevsky in Russian:
Russian "mega-site" with links to Dostoevsky's works and Dostoevsky
scholarship in Russian.
- "Dostoevsky on the Internet": I am not endorsing this site for your
academic work, but it appears to be a helpful page with links to various Dostoevsky-themed
sites that may be of general interest.
Tolstoy
- Donna Tussing Orwin, ed. The
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. Great resource with chapters on different aspects of Tolstoy's oeuvre.
Electronic access through the Davidson College library (username & password
required for off-campus access).
- Tolstoy Studies Journal: The
journal's website includes access to some back issues of the journal and links
to various Tolstoy-related sites. The Davidson College library has hard copies
of the journal (See "Bound periodicals" and "Current periodicals").
- Tolstoy in Russian:
Russian "mega-site" with links to Tolstoy's works and Tolstoy scholarship
in Russian.
Russian