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Thin culture, high art : Gogol, Hawthorne, and authorship in nineteenth-century Russia and America
- Title
- Thin culture, high art : Gogol, Hawthorne, and authorship in nineteenth-century Russia and America / Anne Lounsbery.
- Author
- Lounsbery, Anne.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 342 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Harvard studies in comparative literature
- Subjects
- Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Comparative literature > American and Russian
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 > Criticism and interpretation
- Literary journeys > Italy > Rome
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 > Criticism and interpretation
- Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-334) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Books without literature: Russia and America, writers and institutions, 1800-1850) -- Pt. 1. First writings and institutional negotiations (I. Early Gogol in early print culture; II. Hawthorne before "Hawthorne"; Conclusion) -- Part 2. Thin culture, high art (I. Shallow readers and deep meanings in Dead souls; II. History, vision, and "Ocular relations" in The house of the seven gables; Conclusion) -- Pt. 3. Tradition and modernity, or, What Gogol and Hawthorne found in Rome (I. Gogol in the metropolis of print; II. Hawthorne's Rome: copies, excess and "humbug" in the The marble faun; Conclusion) -- Epilogue (Canonization, Influence, Judgment).
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5690
- ISBN
- 0674023811 (hbk.)
- 9780674023819 (hbk.)
- 067402382X (pbk.)
- 9780674023826 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 74523502
- Author
- Lounsbery, Anne.
- Title
- Thin culture, high art : Gogol, Hawthorne, and authorship in nineteenth-century Russia and America / Anne Lounsbery.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Series
- Harvard studies in comparative literature
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-334) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5690