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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Eighteenth-Century Literature"”.
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
We imagine the eighteenth century to be the time when modern individuals constituted themselves against the forces of communal obligation, when marriage emerged as a union based on singular affection, and when heterosexuality cohered as an ideology. But Relational Selves in Eighteenth Century …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… concepts more fully and to situate them within eighteenth-century intellectual and socio-political history. The main body of the thesis explores how four writers — James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth — respond to alienation in their respective works. All …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
… comparative study of literary conventions in the eighteenth century realism. The central works of this paper are John Cleland’s two novels and two of William Hogarth’s engraving series. The paper gives an overview of theories on realism from the Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Horace, until its …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… dissertation examines the social landscape of eighteenth-century Britain as one that was especially inimical to women and analyzes instances in literature and life writing in which female characters and historical figures negotiated the various restrictions they faced in social settings by …
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Masculinity and the whoremonger in mid-eighteenth century memoirs does whoremongering conform to contemporary ideals of masculinity?
… the whoremonger. Seducers are a regular trope in eighteenth-century literature and have been the subject of extensive study. The notorious Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa; Lothario in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe; and Mr. B, another of Richardson's constructs in Pamela are all recognised …
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Speculative Economic Ideology and Dramatic Strategies in Susanna Centlivre's the Basset Table and the Busy Body
… of the trading classes and their philosophies in eighteenth-century literature grew as financial insitutions like the Bank of England and the National Debt were established; specifically, J.G.A. Pocock tells us, because of the audiences' and writers' "conscious recognition of change in the …
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Methodism and its founders in eighteenth century literary satire
… which swept England, Ireland, and America in the eighteenth century, had some bearing upon the course of England's literary history, and that a new view of the movement and its influence might be gained from the reflection of it through contemporary literature. The study represents the writer's …
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… expand the ways the words are used in popular literature. Few authors use "cabala" and "cabal" in their popular works during this period but Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn stand out for their repeated and extended use of these terms in their popular writings. Margaret Cavendish, denied a …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… about science that proliferated in British literature from 1660 to 1800. Most scholarship on the topic assumes that frequent literary assaults reflected a prevailing scepticism about science, and this assumption continues to prejudice analyses of satires like The Virtuoso (1676), Blazing …
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Descending caves : descent narratives and the subterranean science and literature of the long eighteenth century, 1680 - 1830
… both scientific and literary writing in the long eighteenth century and function as a crucial part in the transformation of the perception of wild mountain landscapes. Despite this, the role of caves has been critically neglected. This thesis re-examines the writing of this period to uncover the …
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Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780
… the continent first or secondhand. As eighteenth-century thinkers began experimenting with empirical and categorical strategies for making sense of the globe, Africa was an important testing ground for these burgeoning epistemological methodologies. Travelers and writers tried to …
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Feminine interests and influences in early English periodicals
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Alexander Pope and the Writing of Thought: Representations of Revision and Composition in Pope’s Works
This thesis examines Alexander Pope’s literary career through the lens of his own portrayals of revision and the composition process. I argue that Pope’s career-long interest in revision in its many forms — rewriting, rethinking, rewording, correcting, imitating, translating, editing, etc. — …
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The Editor, the Preface, and the Eighteenth-Century Edition: A Critical Bibliographic Study
… became entrenched as published texts during the eighteenth century. This dissertation considers the contributions of editors to their specific editions and, ultimately, the editorial project. Forty-five editions, some well-known and some obscure, are critically and bibliographically analyzed in …
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… model was revised towards the end of the eighteenth century in ways that reframed the role that literature could play in education. What Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin recognise in the 1790s is that the interaction between the reader and the novel has the potential to …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… feminist arguments of women writers of the long eighteenth century and the impact these women writers had on the mid-century sentimental novel. By analyzing the complex relationships between religion and feminism, this dissertation traces a tradition of female-authored theological discourse and …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
The Turkish Embassy Letters is considered both inaugural and atypical of women’s travel writing, and scholarship is largely orientated around Montagu’s focus on women and their lives in the different countries she travelled to and stayed in between 1716 – 18. While this dissertation maintains a …
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824
This project attends to a body of literature that registers the extraordinary and tragic effects of chimneys infused with living coal upon young chimney sweeps. In so doing, I show how writers, especially John Holland, registered the dynamic interrelationship between chimney sweeps, chimneys and …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
Exotic flora in the long eighteenth century (1666-1800) embodied a point of contact between the natural and imaginary worlds, bearing witness to the ways that ideology relocates living things according to human desire. Most accounts view these exotics through the lens of ecological imperialism and …