Interpreting America in the Works of Knut Hamsun and Johannes V. Jensen

Vincent Rasmussen

doi:10.7557/13.5341

Authors

Vincent Rasmussen University of Oxford

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5341

Keywords:

America, Modernity, Technology, farming, Hamsun, Fin de Siécle

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

Author Biography

Vincent Rasmussen, University of Oxford

Vincent Rasmussen, St.Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford

Vincent Rasmussen holds a BA in English Literature from Concordia University, Montreal and an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London. His research focuses on late 19th century and early 20th century modernism across in Scandinavia the USA and Canada

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