B. Nelson – författare

Naturalism was the dominant movement in European literary culture during the second half of the 19th century. This book focuses on the poetics, thematics and reception of naturalism, and stresses modern methods of literary analysis.

The essays in this volume examine both the historical dimension of the European idea and the problems of national and transnational identity confronting European inegration in the 1990s.

The transformation of the European Community into a single market in 1992/3, together with the changes in Central and Eastern Europe, have given new life to Jean Monnet's grand ambitions for European integration. The essays in this volume examine some of the key issues facing the EC in the 1990s, focusing on three important areas - the politics of integration; economics, education, and science, and foreign policy and defense.

Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state formations to the present. A major theme of the book is the need to understand the modern state holistically, as a totality of social, political, and ideological factors.