Search for dissertations about: "eighteenth-century literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words eighteenth-century literature.
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1. The Order and the Archive : Freemasonic Archival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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
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2. Vice in the Service of Virtue: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Abstract : Originally published in two volumes in 1748-9, John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill) has long been an underground classic. Because of this underground status, and the prejudicial treatment of literary pornography, Memoirs has never been thoroughly investigated. READ MORE
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3. The Sublime : Precursors and British Eighteenth-Century Conceptions
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
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4. Great men and charming creatures : on male and female terms in eighteenth century novels
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
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5. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s
Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE
