Nationality (narodnost’) of Golden Age literature: The achievement of romanticism or the heritage of classicism
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Language and Literature
Year: 2022

The article counters the widely held opinion that the interest in nationality (narodnost’) and particular nature of nation is a characteristic feature of the Romantic literature. The criticism and aesthetics of the Golden Age (1810–1830s), transferring Western concepts to the Russian soil, sometimes too hastily correlated them with Russian artistic practice. So, in the early 1820s, when, as Petr Vyazemsky admitted, the Russian ideas of romanticism were still vague, nationality was declared the p