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Author:

Lounsbery, Anne.

Title:

Thin culture, high art : Gogol, Hawthorne, and authorship in nineteenth-century Russia and America / Anne Lounsbery.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

342 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich,--1809-1852--Criticism and interpretation.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation.
Literature, Comparative--American and Russian.
Literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literary journeys--Rome.--Rome.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

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).

Series:

Harvard studies in comparative literature.

ISBN:

9780674023826 (pbk.)
067402382X (pbk.)
9780674023819 (hbk.)
0674023811 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)74523502

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)