Emotional Experience and Microhistory : A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Po...

by Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi

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Emotional Experience and Microhistory : A Life Story of a Destitute Pauper Poet in the 19th Century, Paperback by Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi, ISBN 1032236116, ISBN-13 9781032236117, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon through his diary, poetry and other writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to address complicated historical situations. Th deals with the many faces of microhistory and applies it’s methodology to the life of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnús Hj. Magnússon (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’. Th 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 Magnússon’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 schol

• ISBN: 9781032236117
• Condition: Fine

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