Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

• Editor’s Note page, Advisers and Contributors, Alphabetical List of Writers and Works, Alphabetical List of Works, Chronological List of Writers, General Reading List, Chronology, Glossary, Introductory Essays, Old Russian Literature, Pre-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Russian Literature in the 18th Century, Aleksandr Pushkin: From Byron to Shakespeare, The Classic Russian Novel, The Superfluous Man in Russian Literature, Women’s Writing in Russia, Russian Literary Theory: From the Formalists to Lotman, Post-Revolutionary Russian Theatre, Experiment and Emigration: Russian Literature, 1917 - 1953, Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature, Thaws, Freezes, and Wakes: Russian Literature, 1953 - 1991, Russian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period, Writers and Works, Title Index, Notes on Advisers and Contributors

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