This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature.
The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism that is currently of great interest among Americ.
The author focuses on the differences between \'Discourse networks\' in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism.
This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature