Moser C.A. (Ed.) The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

Revised Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1996. — x, 652 p. — ISBN 0-521-41554-3.This history presents in narrative form a survey of Russian literature from the beginnings to this decade, in sufficient but not overwhelming detail. Those who wish to pursue particular points
in more depth will find guidance in the bibliography appended to the volume, which is also in effect an outline of the historiography of Russian literature for approximately the last century, though with emphasis upon studies in western European languages, and especially in English. In 1986, indeed, we marked the centenary of the publication of the first truly influential work on Russian literature in a western language: Eugene Marie Melchior de Vogue’s Le Roman russe, which initiated what has turned out to be a sturdy tradition of criticism and scholarship in western languages. In addition, we are approximately at a century’s remove from the time when the great pioneer translators of Russian literature into English — Isabel Hapgood in the United States, whose first translations appeared in 1886, and Constance Garnett in England, who started publishing her translations in 1894 — began the careers which would do so much to bring Russian writers to the attention of the English-speaking world.
An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, containing a new chapter on Russian literature of the 1980s and additional bibliographical information.
«Professor Moser has had no easy task, and the overall result is a testimony to his very considerable skills as an editor. He facilitates the transition from one period to the next by furnishing at the beginning of each chapter a brief thumbnail sketch of the new period. In themselves these sketches are models of judiciousness. Read in sequence, they provide a fine condensed history of the entire literature.this volume will clearly become an important tool for both teachers and students of the Russian literary tradition.» J. Douglas Clayton, Canadian Slavonic PapersThe literature of old Russia, 988—1730, by Jostein Bertnes
The eighteenth century: neoclassicism and the Enlightenment, 1730—90, by Ilya Serman
The transition to the modern age: sentimentalism and preromanticism, 1790—1820, by Mark Altshuller
The nineteenth century: romanticism, 1820—40, by John Mersereaujr
The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840—55, by Richard Peace
The nineteenth century: the age of realism, 1855—80, by Richard Freebom
The nineteenth century: between realism and modernism, 1880—95, by Julian Connolly
Turn of a century: modernism, 1895—1925, by Evelyn Bristol
The twentieth century: the era of socialist realism, 1925—53. by Victor Terras
The twentieth century: in search of new ways, 1953—80, by Geoffrey Hosking
Afterword: Russian literature in the 1980s, by Efim Etkind