Search for dissertations about: "British eighteenth century"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words British eighteenth century.
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1. 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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2. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Abstract : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. READ MORE
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3. “Only Leave Them to Themselves” : Frances Brooke’s Fictional Worlds of Emancipatory Sensibility
Abstract : In conversation but frequently at odds with contemporary voices on education, British eighteenth-century writer Frances Brooke (1724-1789) argued for a thoroughly revised approach to moral education that relied on the emancipatory potential of inborn sensibility. This thesis considers Brooke’s original texts, which range from periodical writing, novels, tragedies, operas, and prefaces, in the light of education, sensibility, and form, with the intention of expanding our understanding of Brooke’s contribution to eighteenth-century proto-feminist debates. READ MORE
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4. The Discourse of Oratory : The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Abstract : The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. READ MORE
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5. The State, Parliamentary Legislation and Economic Policy during the Structural Transformation of British Economy, 1700-1850
Abstract : This thesis examines the reaction of political institutions to the structural transformation of the British economy from 1700 to 1850. The majority of the literature on the relationship between institutions and economic growth conceptualises the political institutions as a precondition to modern economic growth in the British context. READ MORE
