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Lovers of the Enlightenment: Emilie & Voltaire
… play, a full-length drama in two acts, is the story of the last 18 months in the life of Emilie du Châtelet. It explores the relationship between Emilie and Voltaire, who was her lover for 15 years. Theirs was a romance of not only the heart, but also of the mind, as they shared their …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
Important tenets of Enlightenment thought, specifically natural theology and philosophical naturalism, mark both the libretto and certain aspects of the music of Haydn's Creation. The opening chapters of the dissertation establish the philosophical, historical, literary, and musical milieu as …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
This dissertation examines the preaching ministry of George Whitefield as a precursor to presuppositional apologetics in relation to the cultural shift of the Enlightenment. The presupposition of the authority of the Word of God is the concept that bridges Whitefield’s preaching and …
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
… British, French, and German women authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von Gunderrode (Mahomed), …
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Goethe's Urfaust and the Enlightenment: Gottsched, Welling, and the "Turn to Magic"
The Urfaust, composed in the early 1770s, is the first draft of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) masterpiece, Faust, Teil I (1808). While this early draft is relatively unexamined in its own right, an examination of this work in the context of its original creation offers insights into …
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Chateaubriand's René as a Philosophical Reaction to the Enlightenment and Early Romantic Sentiment
… fictional interlude in his grand argument for the restoration of Christianity after the French Revolution, has been read as the founding text of the French Romantic movement. While this text did in fact serve to define many of the characteristics of French Romantic literature, simply labeling …
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Satire of the New Science in England, France, and Spain During the Enlightenment
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Corporeal rhetoric and social order in the viceroyalty of New Spain: from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
This doctoral thesis represents the first full length historical and comparative analysis of both the contextual catalysts and the originality of the theologically essentialist writings by Church of England theologian Daniel Waterland (1683-1740). Overviewing the most relevant contemporary …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
Colored marble has been used throughout the Mediterranean as a building material, architectural veneer, sculptural material, even a support for painting since at least the second century BC. This thesis examines the poetics and symbolism of marbles, as a medium more than a material, over many …
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Angelic Wasting: The Impacts of the Enlightenment, Evangelicalism, and the Industrial Revolution on Romanticization of Tuberculosis in England, 1800-1850
<p>This thesis aims to elucidate the intersections between the portrayal of tuberculosis in the Romantic era and the Enlightenment, evangelism, and the Industrial Revolution. This study aims to do so by locating and analyzing depictions in the primary source representations of the disease, then …
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Radical enlightenment in German literature 1771-1811
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and social movement that had a profound impact on the development of Western society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the roles of reason, …
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LITERATURE AND THE DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY: 1763--1828
… and established a nation. During that time, the influences of democracy, nationalism, and enlightenment profoundly affected the values, attitudes, morality, and self-image of Americans. Democratic ideals and nationalism played important roles in bringing about the American Revolution. After …
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
… of communicative reason successfully defends the Enlightenment notion of Reason as the vehicle of truth and progress, while integrating Postmodern insights into the illusory nature of metaphysical foundations. Habermas discards the Enlightenment philosophy of the subject with its subjective …
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Isaiah Berlin and the problem of counter-enlightenment liberalism.
This thesis will explore the complex relationship between Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism and his work in the history of ideas. While Berlin’s explicitly political thought reads like a scion of the Enlightenment, albeit with a pronounced Cold War inflection, his work in the history of ideas appears to …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
<p>This dissertation posits that in the five decades following the American Revolution, there was a movement among the elite of Virginia's rising generation to envision a future different from the path that would ultimately take the state toward the retrenchment of slavery and even secession. This …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
<p>This 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, …
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Reconstructing Reason: An Investigation of Moral Rationalism and the Normative Core of Critical Social and Political Theory
This thesis is an analysis of notions of practical reason at the heart of moral rationalism, broadly conceived. In the Western tradition, at least since the Enlightenment, most moral philosophers and political theorists have thought their task was to develop credible alternatives to the traditional …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… we now call “liberal individualism”—that is, the belief in the inalienable rights and freedom of the individual—first emerged in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods in Europe, and continues to be a defining feature of Western democracies. The liberal valorization of freedom as the sovereign …
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