Article(electronic)#11998
A Catalogue of Commercialism in Nikolai Gogol´'sDead Souls
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Volume 57, Issue 3, p. 543-562
ISSN: 2325-7784
In the comparatively peaceful, tranquil and business-minded Europe of the period after the Congress of Vienna, the world suddenly appeared empty, petty, and boring and the stage was set for the Romantic critique of the bourgeois order as incredibly impoverished in relation to earlier ages–the new world seemed to lack nobility, grandeur, mystery, and, above all, passion–Albert O. Hirschman,The Passions and the Interests