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).
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