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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"eighteenth-century England"”.
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Experiencing smallpox in eighteenth-century England
This thesis explores eighteenth-century smallpox to investigate the course, management and control of the disease by communities, families and individuals. It focusses first on the prevalence of smallpox in Oxfordshire demonstrating that smallpox mortality in the county reduced during the century …
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Non-Bank Finance in Eighteenth-Century England
At the start of the eighteenth century, there were virtually no banks outside London. By the end, there were almost 400. Much scholarship on eighteenth-century finance has focused on the new and striking, such as the rise of banks, and, in particular, public institutions, often referred to as the …
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
This study analyzes the impact of eighteenth-century commercialization on the evolution of the English and southern American landed classes with regard to three genteel leadership qualities--education, vocation, and personal characteristics. A simultaneous comparison provides a clearer view of how …
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The Clergy and Print in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-1750
… to the public: the clergy of the Church of England. By focusing on the clergy, this dissertation evades the usual narrow focus on genre. In the past, book-historical and bibliographic studies have relied heavily on a priori classification schemes to study the market for print. While …
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Bluestocking philosophy : aspects of female aristocratic thought in eighteenth-century England.
The aristocratic masculine discourses of the eighteenth century have been the subject of much analysis and debate. This raises the question of the ways in which elite women, who did not participate in the worlds of politics and commerce in which men appear to have found self-definition, related to …
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"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
… important to academic understandings of the eighteenth century. However, the broadness of queer scholarship has resulted in specific sexualities becoming less visible. This project grapples with the concept of bisexuality and its relation to gender, performance, and women in the late …
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A Comparison of the Status of Widows in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial America.
… compares the status of upper-class widows in England to Colonial America. The common law traditions in England established dower, which was also used in the American colonies. Dower guaranteed widows the right to one-third of the land and property of her husband. Jointure was instituted in …
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<em>The Spectator</em>, Adam Smith, and the Evolution of Fictionality in Eighteenth-century England
… few, if any, as of yet, engage one of the century's most influential documents, Joseph Addison and Richard Steel's <em>Spectator</em> papers (1711-1714). This essay will examine the <em>Spectator</em> in order to show how it manipulates fictive narratives and employs fictional characters in …
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The Evolution of Racial and Political Consciousness in Three Black Writers of Eighteenth-Century England
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009159.pdf: 11703811 bytes, checksum: 467114c4a0cc2d36da65c05e85437576 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The amateur solicitor in eighteenth-century England : John Cannon of West Lydford and Glastonbury, 1684-1743
In eighteenth-century England very few professions, if any, were the cause of as much scandal and outrage as the lower branch of the legal profession. Especially tarnishing to their reputation were those practitioners whose qualifications were of suspicious origin. Outside of London, away from the …
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Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England
… Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England" explores the writing of eighteenth century evangelical lay women in print, poetry, and educational material. Through careful attention to both the content and materiality of their texts I reveal how the women of the …
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
… Still Life: Tea Set, functioned within its eighteenth-century context. Rather than considering the image as an academic exercise, depiction of the chinoiserie craze, or as evidence of the aging artist’s waning virtuosity, as other scholars have done, I argue that Still Life: Tea Set …
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Two Orchestral Anthems by John Alcock (1715-1806): A critical edition with commentary
… figure in English church music of the eighteenth century. His writings about his life in both parish church and cathedral music are also invaluable to research of the period. The two orchestral anthems, here appearing in critical editions, display some of the flair and attention to …
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Religious coexistence and sociability in England after the Toleration Act, c.1689-c.1750
The eighteenth century in England has long been associated with increasing consumption, trade, luxury, and intellectual exchange. In contrast with the religiously-fueled tumult of the previous century, it is frequently portrayed as a polite, enlightened and even secularising age. This thesis …
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… to the changing culture and sexual anxiety of eighteenth-century England.</p>
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"For the continuance of their favours": Women, the public sphere and the print culture in England, 1750-1760
… women's use of the growing print culture in England from 1750 to 1760. Notions that women overwhelmingly accepted and articulated the "domestic sphere" ideology at this time are contradicted by historical evidence. Despite the constraints imposed by prescriptive literature, women who used the …
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
In eighteenth-century England, inns stand as transient spaces between traditional, feudal values and a progressive, commercial society. They at once represent inward domesticity and outward society, classical hospitality and commercial enterprise, and class stratification and class amalgamation. …
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"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens
Any historian of eighteenth-century England, especially London, examines the emerging "middle ranks", but they often neglect to address how gender shaped the growing middle-class identity. The importance of gender in the formation of a middle-class identity is often not apparent because the arenas …
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The children of the aristocracy and squirearchy in 18th century England : a new era in parent-child relationships
… of the aristocracy and squirearchy, in mid-eighteenth century England. Prior to that time there was little or no differentiation between certain aspects of childhood (after the age of seven), and those of adulthood. The influence of Locke and Rousseau was concomitant with England's increased …
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