Sökning: "English historical fiction"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden English historical fiction.

1. 11. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

   Författare :Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER

3. 12. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature

   Författare :Ola Jönsson; Danuta Fjellestad; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Heinz Ickstadt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suburbia; affect; masculinity; domophobia; masculinity in crisis; separate spheres; fatherhood; Joyce Carol Oates; Rick Moody; Philip Roth; John Updike; Richard Yates; John Cheever.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. LÄS MER

4. 13. The Victorian Governess Novel

   Författare :Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian governess; didactic fiction; education in literature; women and work in the nineteenth century; nineteenth-century English novel; marginalisation of women; female education in the nineteenth century; English language and literature; governesses in literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. LÄS MER

5. 14. Knowledge and survival in the novels of Thomas Hardy

   Författare :Jane Mattisson; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thomas Hardy; nineteenth-century fiction; history and literature -- nineteenth century; English language and literature; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER

7. 15. Snuten i skymningslandet : svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965–2010

   Författare :Michael Tapper; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Crime fiction; police; Sweden literature ; Sweden film ; Sjöwall-Wahlöö; Per Wahlöö; Olov Svedelid; Leif GW Persson; Jan Guillou; Henning Mankell; Håkan Nesser; Stieg Larsson; Anders Roslund Börge Hellström;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation "The Cop in the Twilight Land: Swedish Police Narratives 1965-2010" considers Swedish culture and ideas in the period 1965-2010 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It takes the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture; a history that necessarily comprises America, by extension a European colonial power, which in the process of constructing its national identity eradicated its native population. LÄS MER