Search for dissertations about: "eighteenth century"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words eighteenth century.

  2. 1. The Sublime : Precursors and British Eighteenth-Century Conceptions

    Author : Karl Axelsson; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Tommie Zaine; Christina Svensson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Aesthetics; the sublime; Longinus; Peri Hupsous; British eighteenth century; Samuel H. Monk; criticism of intellectual literature; Thomas Hobbes; imagination; Estetik;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the attraction of the sublime in British criticism during the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the arguments that served as precursors to the interest in the experience of the sublime. The first part explores Samuel H. READ MORE

  4. 2. Great men and charming creatures : on male and female terms in eighteenth century novels

    Author : Anna-Lena Wallin-Ashcroft; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eighteenth century; sociolinguistics; semantics; experiential realism; gender role; conceptual model; prototype; frame; domain; collocation; metaphor; male; female; epicene; spirit matter; power dependency; active passive; varied limited;

    Abstract : A corpus of terms for human beings collected from 18th century novels is studied from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. A summary of recent linguistic theories and a survey of 18th century culture and society are provided as background. READ MORE

  5. 3. Costume in the Time of Reforms : Louis-René Boquet Designing Eighteenth-Century Ballet and Opera

    Author : Petra Dotlačilová; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Lena Hammergren; Sofia Pantouvaki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; costume; design; theatre; opera; ballet; genre; reform; eighteenth century; France; ancien régime; Louis-René Boquet; Paris Opera; Jean-Georges Noverre; aesthetics; material culture; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : The long eighteenth century was a turbulent period in France, many crucial reforms in society, politics and art challenging the established order of the ancien régime. This battle took place on the theatrical stage as well and materialized in the approach to costume. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Order and the Archive : Freemasonic Archival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    Author : Tim Berndtsson; Otto Fischer; Ann Öhrberg; Henrik Bogdan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; masonry; archival history; archival theory; the Swedish Order of Freemasons; the Order of the Strict Observance; esotericism; eighteenth-century literature; frimureri; arkivhistoria; arkivteori; Svenska Frimurare Orden; Strikta Observansen; esoterik; sjutttonhundratalslitteratur; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study explores how eighteenth-century European Masons created archives, and how these archives in turn created Masons. It is an exploration of how a masonic archival culture was formed, and how different ideas, hopes, and anxieties were co-produced along with the records and manuscripts kept by masonic associations. READ MORE

  7. 5. Mutual Favours : The social and scientific practice of eighteenth-century Swedish chemistry

    Author : Hjalmar Fors; Anders Lundgren; Sven Widmalm; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria; Sweden; chemistry; mineralogy; eighteenth century; enlightenment science; republic of letters; reciprocity; networks; Johan Gottschalk Wallerius; Torbern Bergman; Carl Wilhelm Scheele; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

    Abstract : The dissertation is a study of the creation of chemistry as a science in eighteenth-century Sweden. It is argued that the chemists in the study participated in a network for exchange of scientific facts and all kinds of favours, in which science was both conducted, negotiated and created. READ MORE