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Communities of Gossip in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… are known for their chatter. Less recognized in eighteenth-century studies of gossip have been Eliza Haywood's <i>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</i> and Frances Burney's <i>Evelina</i>, despite the fact that each of these works provides rich material for such exploration. This thesis, …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… dissertation explores the place of ghosts in late eighteenth-century German texts, where they appear with surprising frequency despite widespread disbelief in their ontological reality. These ghosts could simply be lingering remnants of superstition in an age where they no longer belong, but …
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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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Fear and Fortune: Robbery in London in the Late Eighteenth Century
Public representation of highwaymen and footpads in the press spawned a climate of fear in London. Descriptions of the violence that highwaymen and footpads employed in the course of their crimes generated this fear. Violence set them apart from other non- or less-violent thefts that occurred in …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor in order to articulate these two central 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 …
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Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel
… why the subject ceased to resonate as the century drew to a close. Through a series of individual case studies it explores the diverse ways in which the war is presented in a selection of novels published in Britain during the 1780s and 1790s, and reveals how they are shaped in response to …
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
… organist Samuel Felsted (1743-1802) is the only eighteenth-century composer from Jamaica whose sheet music has survived. Previous scholarship on Felsted has focussed on the rediscovery of his oratorio *Jonah*, and the list of subscribers that was published alongside it in 1775. Some biographical …
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Amateur brass and wind bands in Southern England between the late eighteenth century and circa 1900
… brass and wind bands in southern England in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It begins by describing the beginnings of widespread amateur banding and considers the contribution made to the later development of bands by militia and volunteer bandsp church bands and civilian …
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Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America
… a political aesthetic theory for the late eighteenth-century by using the landscape of India and North America to discuss Britain, her policies, and her political leaders. These writers applied Edmund Burke's notions of the sublime and beautiful to India and North America as a way to …
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The Dublin Library Society and its founding members: associational activity and cultural patriotism in late-eighteenth-century Dublin.
In late-eighteenth-century Dublin, options were limited for an expanding reading public who wished to consult quality printed works. During this period of the Anglican Ascendancy, membership to institutional libraries or participation in associational activities was largely limited to elites and …
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James Gillray's Design for a Naval Pillar: Naval Heroism and Patriotic Public Display in late Eighteenth-Century Britain
James Gillray (1756 - 1815) produced 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’ …
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Local experience of the 1798 rebellion: a comparative context
In order to reconstruct four local worlds in late eighteenth-century Ireland, this thesis will investigate the differing effects the Rebellion of 1798 had upon them. In order to assess how religious, political, social and key demographic factors may have influenced a locality’s experience of the …
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Elizabeth Inchbald's Role in Eighteenth-Century Dialogic: the Complex of Utterances in I'Ll Tell You What! and Everyone Has His Fault
… what M.M. Bakhtin calls the "dialogic," as her late eighteenth-century contemporaries Baillie, Wollstonecraft, and Edgeworth. This study will show that such assumptions about a radical role for Inchbald do not take into account the complexity of utterances in her writing. Two typical plays, I'll …
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The Way to True Excellence: The Spirituality of Samuel Pearce
… that seeks to understand why and how the late eighteenth century pastor, Samuel Pearce (1766–1799) was a model for spirituality. Pearce was the pastor of Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, England from 1790 until death in 1799. Pearce only lived to be thirty-three years old, but …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
… paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and overlooked in postwar debates over …
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Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
… Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender relations in the period.
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