Abstract
The USA had an significant influence on the Nobel Prize-Winning authors Johannes V. Jensen and Knut Hamsun. Both authors spent significant amounts of time in America and subsequently expressed their thoughts and opinions on the country in the form of books and articles. Their diverging views on the topics of technological advancements and America’s future role in the world, serve to capture a small but significant part of the larger debate on America’s role in the Nordic countries in the early 20th century
Highlights
The USA had an significant influence on the Nobel Prize-Winning authors Johannes V
Hamsun’s commission to write The Cultural Life of Modern America was largely a product of lectures he held in the Copenhagen Student Association, which according to the author “roused a quite undeservedly enthusiastic reception” (Letter 050)
The experience Jensen had in America a few years after Hamsun, and the opinions expressed on the subject, described in works such as the The Gothic Renaissance (1901) and The New World (1907), serve as a historically valuable counter-thesis to Hamsun’s assessment of America, as Jensen in contrast, praises the virtues of American modern industrialised society
Summary
The USA had an significant influence on the Nobel Prize-Winning authors Johannes V. Hamsun’s commission to write The Cultural Life of Modern America was largely a product of lectures he held in the Copenhagen Student Association, which according to the author “roused a quite undeservedly enthusiastic reception” (Letter 050).
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