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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"1790s"”.
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
This thesis offers a theoretically-aware discussion of the stage appropriations of Gothic novels and dramas in the 1790. Works discussed in detail include: *The Monk*, *The Romance of the Forest*, *The Castle Spectre* and their adaptations, re-writings and afterlives. The author examines many …
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Empire, Province, and Power: Chorbadzhi (Çorbacı) Networks in the Ottoman Empire, 1790s-1860s
… Using chorbadzhis of the Balkans in 1790s–1860s as a lens, this dissertation decenters the Ottoman Empire by shifting the focus from Istanbul to localities; from institutions to peoples; from Muslims to Christians and Jews; from communities to individuals; from official narratives to …
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
This study examines the interaction between religious and national affiliations within a Dissenting denomination. Linda Colley and Jonathan Clark argue that religion provided the unifying foundation of national identity. Colley portrays a Protestant British identity defined in opposition to …
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The lower hand: New perspectives on performance-practice evidence in Edward Bunting’s early-irish-harp field transcriptions of the 1790s
The early Irish harp was the aristocratic musical instrument of Ireland, and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, for 800+ years until c. 1800. Knowledge of the instrument is weak since it has been replaced by the modern Irish harp. Repertory survives in field transcriptions made by Edward …
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Landed society in mid-eighteenth century County Down
… where necessary, documentation from the 1730s or 1790s is cited to supplement arguments. The thesis aims to provide an overview of the personal and public persona of the eighteenth-century provincial gentry class in Ireland and so provide a background to the burgeoning historiography that is …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
… performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and theater music intersected with more people more often and did so with more …
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
… American health history, first beginning in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical thought in journals and newspapers, I investigate how instances of health spectacle shaped the development of …
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Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel
… novels published in Britain during the 1780s and 1790s, and reveals how they are shaped in response to contemporary political imperatives. There has been a tendency to associate the overt politicization of the novel with the intellectual and political ferment of the 1790s but my research shows …
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Early Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Impact of the Gothic
… which reached its zenith of popularity in the 1790s. The gothic novel was calculated to induce terror: horror, confinement, paranoia, repression, sexual sadism, and the taboo were all basic to the genre.
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of literary reception that was grounded in active, practical experimentation and literary praxis. Drawing a line between didacticism and education, Rousseau opened up the possibility for an educational philosophy that shifted …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, these figures are rarely discussed together. I argue that …
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GENDERED GENRE CONVENTIONS IN SOPHIA LEE’S THE RECESS
… of popular historical-Gothic romances in the 1790s, Lee’s novel combines and experiments with the emerging structures and conventions of the sentimental novel. However, some contemporary scholars inaccurately argue that Lee intended to write an historical or historical Gothic novel. …
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The Development of the Corporation in New Hampshire From 1760 to 1820
… argues the American corporations formed in the 1790s were a direct outgrowth of the positive experience the people had with colonial corporations. Due to restrictions placed by the king on the types of corporations permissible in the colonies, the corporations that were created were town-based, …
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Politics and rebellion in County Kildare 1790-1803
… divisions became more polarised during the 1790s the liberal position became increasingly difficult to maintain. Maynooth College, founded in 1795, was viewed suspiciously by loyalists in 1798 and 1803 despite government patronage. In the years before the 1798 rebellion loyalist, liberal and …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… and settlement; to create a new model of 1790s HLC Areas; and to construct a database listing all settlements by size and form. Nucleation and dispersion densities are calculated from this database, compared with Isle of Wight densities mapped by Roberts & Wrathmell and discussed in …
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Aristocrats, Republicans, and Cannibals: American Reactions to French Women in Violence
… the early Republic, and political parties in the 1790s, it seeks to illuminate American views toward women in violence during the years of the early Republic.
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The rape of Mary Raymond : a radical view of rape in Mary Hays's The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice
… and narratives written between the 1670s and the 1790s together with some of the contemporary Radical texts which exhibit similar concerns and views expressed in the writer's feminist tracts and novels. I argue that Hays's gender politics are closely related to the issues played out in both …
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Double Characters: The Making of American Nationalism in Kentucky, 1792--1833
… trans-Appalachian West, many Kentuckians in the 1790s were antagonistic towards the new federal government to the point of threatening to secede, but they nevertheless proclaimed that such a step would be properly nationalistic. After the election of Thomas Jefferson, both Republicans and …
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La fête des femmes : the feminine republic of letters in the long eighteenth century
… century. It goes on to consider how, in the 1790s, women read and wrote in response to a revival of Rousseauvian philosophies and adapted pre-existing forms into new methods through which to discuss women’s proscribed position in society and through which to envision a utopian alternative …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… English-language Welsh novels from the 1780s and 1790s, highlighting the potential ideological disconnect between sustaining a public image of Wales as a picturesque idyll and acknowledging the signs of industrialization. Chapter two explores Maria Edgeworth’s approach to antiquarianism, tradition …
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