Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Republic of Letters"”.
-
Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters
This is a study of how the letters of Procopius of Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza, Synesius of Cyrene, and Isidore of Pelusium, created circuits of intellectual sociability and exchange transcending the territorial limits of Empire and thereby affirmed their participation in a common culture of Learning. The …
-
PEN International and its Republic of Letters, 1921-1970
In 1921 a circle of writers formed a dinner club in London to welcome foreign writers visiting from abroad. Punningly dubbed the "P.E.N."--for the poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists invited into its fold--the group argued that writers above all could best promote communication and civility …
-
La fête des femmes : the feminine republic of letters in the long eighteenth century
This dissertation examines a plethora of women’s literary engagements during the long eighteenth century. It relates this literary output to the established and recognised body of works by men and women which have come to be known collectively as the querelle des femmes. However, it argues that a …
-
'La Violence et la mauvaise foi': Context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle's Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique
My thesis presents an examination of Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique (1686) by Pierre Bayle, a prominent figure in the Republic of Letters and the Huguenot Refuge in the seventeenth century. This pamphlet was the first occasional text that Bayle published following the Revocation of the …
-
Spectralite Et Critique De La Laideur: L'engagement Postcolonial Dans La Litterature en Francais De La Nouvelle Generation D'ecrivains Africains
"This dissertation examines the new generation of Francophone African writers and their negotiation of the theory of ""engagement."" Thematically, many of these writers deal with the daunting problems faced by Africa and with issues linked to emigration to France. But they also have to work with …
-
Spectralité et critique de la laideur : l’engagement postcolonial dans la littérature en français de la nouvelle génération d’écrivains africains
This dissertation examines the new generation of Francophone African writers and their negotiation of the theory of “engagement.” Thematically, many of these writers deal with the daunting problems faced by Africa and with issues linked to emigration to France. But they also have to work with …
-
Dr. Richard Price, the Marquis de Condorcet, and the Political Culture of Friendship in the Late Enlightenment
… in political culture including the rise of the public sphere where political ideas were freely and openly discussed and criticized. The new public sphere arose within the institutions of private life such as the Republic of Letters and salons, so the modes of behavior in private life were …
-
The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
The defense of poetry is a centuries-old genre that shapes the verse of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams. Arguments from the defense of poetry become models for the imagery in their poems and for their own poetic voices. These arguments include defending poiesis …
-
ALLE ORIGINI DEL CIMENTO: RETI METEOROLOGICHE E INTELLETTUALI IN TOSCANA ALLA METÀ DEL SEICENTO
The main objective of this thesis is to reconstruct the context in which the Accademia del Cimento arose. The first chapter will therefore retrace the intellectual origins of the group: starting from the study of a peculiar documentary corpus of lists of books and authors, the main …
-
From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
The library of existing scholarship on Vladimir Nabokov circles uncomfortably around his annotated translation Eugene Onegin (1964) and late English-language novel Ada, or Ardor (1969). This dissertation juxtaposes Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin (1825-32) with Nabokov's two most controversial monuments …
-
‘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 …
-
Biblical Criticism and Confessional Division from Jean Morin to Richard Simon, c. 1620-1685
… a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of biblical criticism in the seventeenth century. Its central objective is to put forward a new interpretation of the work of the Oratorian scholar Richard Simon. It does so by placing Simon's work, above all his Histoire critique du …
-
Planting improvement : the rhetoric and practice of scientific agriculture in northern British America, 1670-1820
"Planting Improvement: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scientific Agriculture in Northern British America, 1670-1820," explores the history and cultural politics of environmental change in the British empire through a focus on rural land-use practices and the construction of scientific expertise in …
-
UNA REPUBBLICA LETTERARIA DIGITALE
The advent of digital media has profoundly transformed the literary sphere, affecting both the production and consumption of content. While numerous studies have examined these changes descriptively, this work seeks to provide a more nuanced theoretical understanding of the interactions between …
-
Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… a dichotomous model that pits humanists from the Republic of Letters against scholastics from the Faculty of Theology. In my study, this misleading model is replaced by a focus on how new ideas about theological competence arose within the University of Paris. The first major task of my thesis is …
-
The age of the magazine: literary consumption and metropolitan culture, 1815-1825
The years between 1815 and 1825 were a period of social and cultural flux. This thesis examines what I take to be the most significant literary genre of that period, the magazine. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the London Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine, along with a host of other, less …
-
Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… follows the collection and cultivation of plants in the Russian Empire for medicinal and botanical purposes from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. It focuses on the itineraries of collection and the spaces of cultivation established by herbalists, …
-
William Cave (1637-1713) and the Fortunes of Historia Literaria in England
This thesis is the first full-length study of the English clergyman and historian William Cave (1637-1713). As one of a number of Restoration divines invested in exploring the lives and writings of the early Christians, Cave has nonetheless won only meagre interest from early-modernists in the past …