Eugene Onegin

Further Reading

The following selection is confined to books in English and excludes many excellent articles on Eugene Onegin in scholarly journals. (Some of these are indicated in The Companion to Pushkin, see below.) An extensive bibliography of critical literature, in English, Russian and other European languages, is to be found in the study below by Sally Dalton-Brown. This also lists another eleven English translations of Pushkin’s novel.

Biographies

Binyon, T. J., Pushkin (London: HarperCollins, 2002)

Feinstein, E., Pushkin (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)

Vickery, Walter N., Pushkin, Death of a Poet (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1968)

Vitale, Serena, Pushkin’s Button (London: Fourth Estate, 1999)

Critical Works on Eugene Onegin

Briggs, A. D. P., Eugene Onegin, Landmarks of World Literature Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

Clayton, J. D., Ice and Flame: Aleksandr Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985)

Dalton-Brown, S., Pushkin’s ‘Evgenii Onegin’ (London: Bristol Classical Press, 1997)

Hoisington, S. S. (ed.), Russian Views of Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’, trans. S. S. Hoisington and W. Arndt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)

Studies of Pushkin with discussion of Eugene Onegin

Bayley, John, Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971)

Bethea, D. (ed.), Pushkin Today (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

Greenleaf, M., Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994)

Hoisington, S. S. (ed.), A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995). Includes chapter by Hoisington on ‘Tatiana’

Kahn, Andrew (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Includes chapter on Onegin by Marcus Levitt

Sandler, S., Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989)

Tertz, Abram (A. Sinyavsky), Strolls with Pushkin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993)

Vickery, Walter, Alexander Pushkin, revised edn (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992)

Studies of Russian literature with discussion of Eugene Onegin

Andrew, Joe, Writers and Society during the Rise of Russian Realism (London: Macmillan, 1980)

Fennell, J., Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Studies of Ten Russian Writers (London: Faber and Faber, 1973)

Freeborn, R., The Rise of the Russian Novel: Studies in the Russian Novel from ‘Eugene Onegin’ to ‘War and Peace’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973)

Todd, W. Mills, Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, and Narrative (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1986)

Wilson, Edmund, The Triple Thinkers (New York: Oregon Books, 1977). Twelve essays on literary subjects including ‘In Honour of Pushkin’

Woodward, James B., ‘The Principle of Contradictions in Evgeniy Onegin’ in Form and Meaning: Essays on Russian Literature (Columbus, OH: Slavica, c. 1993)

Other Writings on Pushkin

Bethea, David, Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998)

Clarke, Roger, Eugene Onegin and Four Tales from Russia’s Southern Frontier: A Prisoner in the Caucasus, The Fountain of Bachchisaray, Gipsies, Poltava (Herts: Wordsworth Classics, 2005). Translated into English prose with an Introduction and Commentary

Fennell, J., Selected Verse with Introduction and Prose Translations (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1991)

Lukács, G., Russian Realism in World Literature (London: Merlin Press, 1970). Includes ‘Pushkin’s Place in World Literature’

Richards, D. J. and Cockerell, C. R. S., Russian Views of Pushkin (Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1976)

Wolff, Tatiana, Pushkin on Literature (London: Methuen, 1971)