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Emotional Experience and Microhistory - A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Poet in the 19th Century (Paperback)
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Emotional Experience and Microhistory - A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Poet in the 19th Century (Paperback)
Series: Microhistories
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Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death
of Magnus Hj. Magnusson through his diary, poetry and other
writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to
address complicated historical situations. The book deals with the
many faces of microhistory and applies it's methodology to the life
of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnus Hj. Magnusson
(1873-1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19 in 1892,
he lived a peripatetic existence in an unstinting struggle with
poor health, together with a ceaseless quest for a space to pursue
writing and scholarship in accord with his dreams. He produced and
accumulated a huge quantity of sources (autobiography, diary,
poems, reflections) which are termed by the author as
'egodocuments'. The book demonstrates how these egodocuments can be
applied systematically, revealing unexpected perspectives on his
life and demonstrating how integration of diverse sources can open
up new perspectives on complex and difficult subjects. In so doing,
the author offers an understanding both of how Magnusson's story
has been told, and how it can give insight into such matters as
gender relations and sexual life, and the history of emotions.
Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern
scholarship has shaped scholars' ideas about egodocuments and
microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and
interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern
history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology.
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