The following resources can be found in academic libraries in the Washington, DC and surrounding areas. To find any of these books in a library near you, see Worldcat. Don't forget about interlibrary loans!
General Reference
- Cornwell, Neil, and Nicole Christian. Reference Guide to Russian Literature. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
- Cornwell, Neil. The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Fennell, John Lister Illingworth. Nineteenth Century Russian Literature; Studies of Ten Russian Writers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
- Freeborn, Richard. The Rise of the Russian Novel; Studies in the Russian Novel from Eugene Onegin to War and Peace. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
- Mirsky, D. S., and Francis J. Whitfield. A History of Russian Literature, from Its Beginnings to 1900. New York: Vintage Books, 1958.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and Fredson Bowers. Lectures on Russian Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark, 1981.
- Slonim, Marc. An Outline of Russian Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.
- Terras, Victor. Handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Criticism & Biographies
The following books provide biographical and/or critical information about some of the major 19th century Russian authors. This list is far from comprehensive, but rather meant to provide starting points for researching specific authors.
Chekhov, Anton:
- Gottlieb, Vera, and Paul Allain. The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Rayfield, Donald. Anton Chekhov: A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
- Freeborn, Richard. Dostoevsky. London: Haus, 2003.
- Wellek, René. Dostoevsky; A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
- Maguire, Robert A. Exploring Gogol. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1994.
- Troyat, Henri. Divided Soul; The Life of Gogol. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
- Ehre, Milton. Oblomov and His Creator; The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974.
- Setchkarev, Vsevolod. Ivan Goncharov; His Life and His Works. Würzburg: Jal-Verlag, 1974.
- Garrard, John Gordon. Mikhail Lermontov. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.
- Lavrin, Janko. Lermontov. London: Bowes & Bowes, 1959.
- Binyon, T. J. Pushkin: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Troyat, Henri. Pushkin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
- Orwin, Donna Tussing. The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Troyat, Henri. Tolstoy. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
- Moser, Charles A. Ivan Turgenev. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
- Troyat, Henri. Turgenev. New York: Dutton, 1988.