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11. Veils of Irony : The Development of Narrative Technique in Women's Novels of the 1790s
Sammanfattning : Innovation in literary history may originate in minor as well as major novelists of the past. This study evaluates the contribution to literary history made by three unknown English women writers: Jane West, Charlotte Smith and Anna Maria Bennett. LÄS MER
12. Arbeit am Zufall : Die Formierung des modernen deutschen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with the relationship between chance and the form of the German novel during its modernization in the eighteenth century. In novels by Wieland, Moritz and Goethe, ‘chance’ poses a complex of problems that the novels process in the course of their narrations and that in turn also influences how the German novel itself, as a new genre in the late eighteenth century, began to gain definition. LÄS MER
13. 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
14. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s
Sammanfattning : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. LÄS MER
15. The Tragedy of Liberty : Civic Concern and Disillusionment in James Thomson's Tragic Dramas
Sammanfattning : Early eighteenth-century serious drama often addresses the significance of liberty. This study focuses on the theme of civic and individual liberty in the little known tragedies of James Thomson, Sophonisba, Agamemnon and Tancred and Sigismunda, all of which problematise the condition of liberty under the influence of ideology. LÄS MER
