Isles of Felicity – Negotiating a Place for Poetry in Swedish and Danish Romanticism

Hermansson, Gunilla

doi:10.1080/10509585.2015.1050832

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“…In The Isle of Bliss [1875/1827], Atterbom tells the story of King Astolf who travels to the Isle of Bliss where he marries Felicia. When he returns to his old kingdom after 300 years, he is horrified to discover that materialism, populism, and the end of monarchical rule have taken hold [Hermansson 2015]. Other writers, such as Anna Maria Lenngren and Almqvist, drew attention to problems relating to poverty, the ingrained class system, and the anti-democratic tendencies of the aristocracy.…”

Section: Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems

Martin¹,

Nijhuis²,

Olsson³

2021

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate whether cross-national distinctions in cultural conceptions of labor have some correspondence to distinctions between coordinated and liberal industrial relations systems. We hypothesize that historical literary depictions of labor are associated with the evolution of industrial systems, and apply computational text analyses to large corpora of literary texts. We find that countries (Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands) with coordinated, corporatist industrial relations in the 20th century share similar cultural constructions about labor relations dating back to at least 1770. Literary depictions found in modern coordinated/corporatist countries are significantly different from those found in Britain, a country with liberal/pluralist industrial relations systems. The research has significance for our understanding of the role of culture in the evolution of modern political economies.

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Section: Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%