Contents
- The Text of Dead Souls
- Backgrounds and Sources
- A Chronology of Gogol’s Life
- Gogol’s "Four Letters to Divers Persons Apropos Dead Souls"
- From Gogol’s Letters
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- To A. S. Pushkin. October 7, 1835.
- To V. A. Zhukovsky. November 12, 1836.
- To S. T. Aksakov. December 28, 1840.
- To P. A. Pletnev. January 7, 1842.
- To N. Ya. Prokopovich. April 9, 1842.
- To A. V. Nikitenko. April 10, 1842.
- To A. S. Danilevsky. May 9, 1882.
- To V. Zhukovsky. June 26, 1842.
- Addressee unknown. About July 20, 1842.
- To S. T. Aksakov. August 18/6, 1842.
- To A. O. Smirnova. July 25, 1845.
- To N. M. Yazykov. May 5, 1846.
- Ranks in Tsarist Russia
- Essays in Criticism
- Robert A. Maguire, [The Legacy of Gogol Criticism]
- V. G. Belinsky, Chichikov's Adventures, or Dead Souls: Gogol’s Epic Poem
- Alexander I. Herzen, Diary Entries on Dead Souls
- Donald Fanger, Dead Souls: The Mirror and the Road
- Yuri Mann, On the Two Opposing Structural Principles of Dead Souls
- V. V. Gippius, An Introduction to Dead Souls
- Andrei Bely, The Figure of Fiction in Dead Souls
- Vladimir Nabokov, Our Mr. Chichikov
- Edmund Wilson, Gogol: The Demon in the Overgrown Garden
- Simon Karlinsky, [Portrait of Gogol as a Word Glutton]
- Dmitry Ciûevsky, Gogol: Artist and Thinker
- Victor Shklovsky, The Literary Genre of Dead Souls
- M. M. Bakhtin, Verbal Art and the Folk Culture of Laughter
- Yuri M. Lotman, The Problem of Artistic Space in Gogol’s Prose
- Selected Bibliography
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