Search for dissertations about: "early modern England"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words early modern England.
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1. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
Abstract : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. READ MORE
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2. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760
Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. READ MORE
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3. "Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite" : An Edition of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy, with an Introduction, Explanatory Notes and Glossary
Abstract : This dissertation contains an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560–1570) treatise on alchemy, and includes an introduction to the edition, explanatory notes and a glossary. The edition presents the text of Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1490, which was copied out and annotated in 1590 by Dr Simon Forman (1552–1611). READ MORE
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4. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE
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5. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820
Abstract : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). READ MORE
