The Pushkin Handbook

David M. Bethea, ed. The Pushkin Handbook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xlii, 665 pp. Select Bibliographies. Index. $60, cloth.

North American and Russian Pushkin scholars differ in their approaches. While Russian scholars at the Pushkin House in Leningrad/St. Petersburg have historically excelled at textological scholarship, North Americans over the past fifty years have generally tried to look at larger issues, both within Pushkin's writing itself and while placing him in a literary and historical context. The brilliance of The Pushkin Handbook is that it brings together some of the best Pushkinists from both continents under one cover, juxtaposing approaches, …