Helmut Kuzmics and Roland Axtmann
Ashgate
Hardback
376
2007
A cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study this volume combines historical macro-sociology and the sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. The authors? argument is based on an analysis of literary sources mainly novels and plays applying a sociology of literature approach. By employing and analyzing empirical details of individual cases and texts the authors reach a clearer understanding of seemingly intangible and irrational aspects of national identity.