Search for dissertations about: "the nineteenth century"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 116 swedish dissertations containing the words the nineteenth century.
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1. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the establishment (in 1885), the influence, the critical reception, and the legacy of the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the gallery and the collection were products and producers of specific art-historical situations, within a particular nineteenth-century Swedish art world. READ MORE
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2. The End of Piracy : Rethinking the History of German Print Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Abstract : This dissertation is an historical study of the German book trade in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In this period, German states passed authorial rights reforms that prompted energetic discussions about the definition of authorship and unauthorized reprinting. READ MORE
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3. Knowledge and pleasure at Regent's Park : the gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the nineteenth century
Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is the Zoological Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (f. 1826) in the nineteenth century. Located in Regent s Park, it was the express purpose of the Gardens (f. 1828) to function as a testing-ground for acclimatisation and to demonstrate the scientific importance of various animal species. READ MORE
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4. The Victorian Governess Novel
Abstract : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. READ MORE
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5. 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
