HARVARD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Cover: Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America, from Harvard University PressCover: Thin Culture, High Art in HARDCOVER

Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 51

Thin Culture, High Art

Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674023819

Publication Date: 02/28/2007

Short

Also Available As

Jacket: Thin Culture, High Art

PAPERBACK | $27.50

ISBN 9780674023826

Short

Add to Cart

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Books without Literature: Russia and America, Writers and Institutions, 1800-1850
  • Part One: First Writings and Institutional Negotiations
    • 1. Early Gogol in Early Print Culture
    • 2. Hawthorne before “Hawthorne”
  • Part Two: Thin Culture, High Art
    • 1. Shallow Readers and Deep Meanings in Dead Souls
    • 2. History, Vision, and “Ocular Relations” in The House of the Seven Gables
  • Part Three: Tradition and Modernity, or, What Gogol and Hawthorne found in Rome
    • 1. Gogol in the Metropolis of Print
    • 2. Hawthorne’s Rome: Copies, Excess, and “Humbug” in The Marble Faun
  • Epilogue: Canonization, Influence, Judgment
  • Notes
  • Index

Recent News

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Photograph of the book Fearless Women against red/white striped background

A Conversation with Elizabeth Cobbs about Fearless Women

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the work of Elizabeth Cobbs, whose new book Fearless Women shows how the movement for women’s rights has been deeply entwined with the history of the United States since its founding. Cobbs traces the lives of pathbreaking women who, inspired by American ideals, fought for the cause in their own ways…