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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Eighteenth-century Britain"”.
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain” examines the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace …
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"""The face of things"": the posthumanist imagination in eighteenth-century Britain"
… Face of Things: The Posthumanist Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Britain"" examines how eighteenth-century British subjects negotiated their identities in response to the increased contact with nonhuman agents—plants, animals, diseases, and automata—facilitated by global networks of commerce …
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The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain
… that the story of unproblematic progression from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century and modern natural history is a myth. Eighteenth-century natural history was a distinct blend of practices and theories that no longer exists, though many individual elements of it have …
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Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain
… for understanding modes of government in eighteenth-century Britain. Chapter One examines how children’s books prior to Lessons for Children addressed different types of implied child readers with the aim of producing members of an ideal society. Chapter Two explores how Barbauld created a …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century architecture was …
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Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
A number of historians of science have claimed that the early Boyle Sermons provided a platform for the promotion of a moderate-Anglican social and political ideology underpinned by Newtonian natural philosophy. However, by examining in detail the texts of Richard Bentley, John Harris and Samuel …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sensibility in eighteenth-century Britain is often described by critics as a rejection of Augustan classicism in favour of a modern, proto-Romantic focus on individual emotion and mutual sympathy. My thesis argues, by contrast, that the classicism of the early eighteenth century was inextricably …
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Song Cultures and National Identities in Eighteenth-Century Britain, c.1707-c.1800
… English and Scottish national identities in the eighteenth century. Across five chapters it tracks and describes the reproduction and reinterpretation of various forms of ‘Englishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ through songs and through writings about songs. It is argued that the complexities of English …
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Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
… Notably absent from previous studies of the eighteenth century is the dynamic connections between contrasting disciplines of this time period. Terrestrial objects such as diamonds, silver, gold, and stone, situated between architecture, the decorative arts, and geology, superseded classical …
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The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… The Elizabethan past and the uses of history in eighteenth-century Britain” examines the place of the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan and Shakespearean pasts in eighteenth-century popular culture and politics. Through an analysis of five moments, three times at which Elizabeth and the men of …
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James Gillray's Design for a Naval Pillar: Naval Heroism and Patriotic Public Display in late Eighteenth-Century Britain
… maritime themed prints that were responses to Britain’s contemporary naval wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1793-1815). Diverse visual representations, publications, theatre performances and the press informed Gillray and his audiences’ interpretations of the Navy, loyalist …
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Combat motivation in the eighteenth-century British army
… history. Combat motivation in the army of eighteenth-century Britain merits study, since the subject as it pertains to pre-industrial armies has at present received little attention. The soldiers of Hanoverian Britain received motivation from several sources. Basic training in the …
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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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Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton’s mechanical paintings: production and consumption 1777 to 1781
… Mechanical paintings were symptomatic of wider eighteenth-century concerns – imitation leading to invention, the transfusion of existing technologies, and the role of cultural goods in marking distinction and social class. This thesis’s study of these discourses has shed a light on the …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… a queer lens to investigate five novels from eighteenth century Britain that use queer themes to reinforce the patriarchal and heteronormative power structure of eighteenth-century society. The first two chapters will focus on sapphic sexual initiations and the implications of female same-sex …
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Sublime and infernal reveries : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter
… the collaborative nature of creativity in the eighteenth century. George Romney's career demonstrates that even within changing social and creative orders, and a long-side more modem impulses, longstanding traditions involving a close association between artists and advisors, striving for …
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The recruitment of the British Army 1807-1815
… on war and society between 1793 and 1815. Yet Britain has remained aloof from these trends, as it is generally assumed that Britain did not adopt mass warfare, and instead relied on a small, highly trained, professional army, in keeping with the warfare of the eighteenth century. Britain is …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… botanical science, and domestic aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain through contemporary fine art methods. Taking the botanical collages of Mary Delany (1700–1788) as a historical point of departure, the research situates women’s decorative and domestic practices within broader feminist …
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Functional Goods and Fancies: The Production and Consumption of Consumer Goods in Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham c. 1680-1780
… changing environment of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. It specifically focuses on the production and consumption of consumer goods in Northumberland, Newcastle and Durham between c. 1680 to 1780. It places the region in a national context and analyses how the diffusion of …
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