Thin Culture, High Art

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

Anne Lounsbery (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

455 Seiten

2021
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-453-4 (ISBN)

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In Russia and America a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack, not by disputing it but by insisting on it, by representing the nation's (putative) cultural deficit as a moral and aesthetic advantage. Through a comparative study of Gogol and Hawthorne, this book examines parallels that seem particularly striking when we consider that these traditions had virtually no points of contact. Yet the unexpected parallels between these authors are the result of historical similarities: Russians and Americans felt obliged to develop a manifestly national literature ex nihilo, and to do so in an age when an unprecedented diversity of printed texts were circulating among an ever more heterogeneous reading public. Responding to these conditions, Gogol and Hawthorne articulated ideas that would prove influential for their nations' literary development: that is, despite the culture's thinness and deviation from European norms, it would soon produce works that would surpass European literature in significance.

Anne Lounsbery is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Department Chair at New York University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2021
Übersetzer	Irina Burova, Andrey Razin
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-64469-453-0 / 1644694530
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-453-4 / 9781644694534
Zustand	Neuware