Gogolian
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.
"Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal interests centred on the solution of certain great social problems,—the arrangement of the relations between the sexes, the abolition of serfdom, the abrogation of all individual property in land for the good of the community."
Example
More examples"Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal interests centred on the solution of certain great social problems,—the arrangement of the relations between the sexes, the abolition of serfdom, the abrogation of all individual property in land for the good of the community."
Etymology
From Gogol + -ian, from Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ) from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”), from Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ) < Proto-Slavic *gogolĭ.