HARVARD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 51

Thin Culture, High Art

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

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ISBN 9780674023826

Publication Date: 02/28/2007

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“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

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