2. Review of previous research

The most complete overview of how the concept of literary impressionism has been used, internationally, in literary criticism and in the writing of the history of literature is to be found in the Swedish scholar Hans Lund’s study, Impressionism och litterär text (1993; Impressionism and Literary Text). To the scholar interested in the history and the evolution of this notion, Lund’s work is of immense value, as it examines the use of the term during the eleven decades following its coinage in.