Research Guide: Russian Literature Seminar E475
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Reference Books |
Dictionary of Russian Literature. Harkins, William E. Greenwood, 1956.
R891.703 H28
Dostoevsky Encyclopedia. Lantz, Kenneth. Greenwood, 2004.
R891.73 D72ylk
Encyclopedia of Russian History. Millar, James R. ed. Macmillan, 2004.
R947.003 E56 | 3vols.
Handbook of Russian Literature. Terras, Victor. Yale University Press, 1985.
R891.7 H23
Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Cornell, Neil, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
R891.7 R33
Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale, 1999.
R813.03 A51 V.198
Russian Literature in the Age of Realism. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale, 2003.
R813.03 A51 V.277
Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale, 2001.
R813.03 A51 V.238
Russian Women Writers. Tomei, Christine. Garland, 1999.
891.708 R96 | 2 vols.
Recommended Web sites |
From the Ends to the Beginning
From Northwestern University an alphabetical, bilingual anthology of Russian poets, along with biographical timelines, bibliographies, and external links.
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Library of Congress--The Empire That Was Russia
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