The Devils in the Details: The Role of Evil in the Short Fiction of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and Nathaniel Hawthorne.(Critical Essay)

From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) are two writers whose names invariably seem to appear in critical discussion of romantic literature. Given the direct influence on both Gogol and Hawthorne of writers like Ludwig Tieck, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, and other giants of the late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century fantastic/romantic school of literature, this should not come as a surprise. What is perhaps surprising is that very few critics have chosen to examine the works of Gogol and Hawthorne in direct comparison with one ...

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