Thin Culture, High Art

“This interesting study of Gogol and Hawthorne points out the similarities in the works, ideas, and careers of the two authors… [Lounsbery’s] book, as the first major comparison of the works, ideas, and careers of one of America’s and one of Russia’s most original nineteenth-century writers, is one of great importance to Gogol and Hawthonre specialists, as well as scholars of comparative literature.”—Maya Zeigler, Slavic and East European Journal