Passive Resistance in George Gissing's New Grub Street and Knut Hamsun's Sult

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dc.contributor.authorShah, Zeynep Harputlu
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-24T19:10:02Z
dc.date.available2024-12-24T19:10:02Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentSiirt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractGissing's New Grub Street (1891) and Hamsun's Sult (1890) depict distinctive voices of outcast young artists suffering from urban poverty, displacement and isolation, and reveal a deeper insight into wider questions on urban modernity, passive resistance and a fragmented identity. The plots and semi-autobiographical accounts of these texts locate them specifically in late-nineteenth century Kristiania (Oslo) and London by focusing on changing standards of literary culture in the 1880s and 1890s. Hamsun's emphasis on the subjective individual and Gissing's emphasis on representing realist social groupings offer us complementary accounts of the experience of rootlessness, the self-division of outcast emigrant writers and the difficulty of survival by sticking to their own terms in creating and presenting their works of art in the capital. A comparative reading of these texts helps us to see not only their city-specific contexts, but also a transnational understanding of the commercialisation of art and the passive resistance of the artists that spanned the national borders of England and Norway. These urban novels, I suggest, perform a critical resistance to the assimilating forces of late-nineteenth-century modernity and changing economic conditions with the aim of preserving artistic integrity and freedom. © 2019 Goteborgs Universitet. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi10.35360/njes.492
dc.identifier.endpage120
dc.identifier.issn1502-7694
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85092131770
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage95
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org10.35360/njes.492
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12604/3917
dc.identifier.volume18
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherGoteborg University
dc.relation.ispartofNJES Nordic Journal of English Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241222
dc.subjectCommodification of art and literature
dc.subjectGeorge gissing
dc.subjectKnut hamsun
dc.subjectPassive resistance
dc.subjectUrban poverty
dc.titlePassive Resistance in George Gissing's New Grub Street and Knut Hamsun's Sult
dc.typeArticle

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