Sökning: "Swedish literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth century"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
1. Min allrabästa och ömmaste vän! Kvinnors brevskrivning under svenskt 1700-tal
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of women's letter-writing in eighteenth-century Sweden. The letters are written by a number of women from the uppper classes (nobility and bourgeoisie) during the last two decades of the eighteenth century. The majority of the letters are written in Swedish, some however in French. LÄS MER
2. Jesu Christi Pijnos Historia Rijmwijs betrachtad: Svenska passionsdikter under 1600- och 1700-talet
Sammanfattning : Metrical versions of the Passion form a significant part of the substantial body of devotional literature written in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. The aim underlying them was twofold: to meet the demand for works which could be used for purposes of educadon, edification, and private worship but also to show that the vanacul-ars could be used to produce distinguished works written in accordance with the aesthetic ideals of Classical and Neo-Latin poetry. LÄS MER
3. Dygdens förvandlingar : Begreppet dygd i tillfällestryck till handelsmän före 1780
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how the concept of virtue (dygd) is used in Swedish occasional poetry addressed to merchants before 1780. Occasional poetry was the major kind of literature in Sweden in the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and usually addressed to the nobility and other dominant groups. LÄS MER
4. Distribution and Differences : Stratification and the System of Reproduction in a Swedish Peasant Community 1620-1820
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the character, conditions and change of peasant stratification in early modern Sweden. Wherever and whenever one looks, one finds that resources were unevenly spread among peasant households. In the literature, there are different, and conflicting, views compatible with this finding. LÄS MER