Search for dissertations about: "Jeremy Bentham"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Jeremy Bentham.

2. 1. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

   Author : Chris Haffenden; Frans Lundgren; Peter Josephson; Samantha Matthews; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-monumentalizing; self-made immortality; history of celebrity; cultural memory; historical consciousness; Jeremy Bentham; Auto-Icon; John Soane; Soane Museum; Benjamin Robert Haydon; autobiography; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. READ MORE