Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death of Magn?s Hj. Magn?sson 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 Magn?s Hj. Magn?sson (1873-1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19...