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26. Det nära främmande : Svensk lärdom och politik i en tysk tidning, 1753-1792
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes the representations of Swedish learning and politics in the well-known review journal Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen during the time period 1753–1792. The overarching purpose is to investigate how a European country could be imagined and put to use in a nearby state, where it had the status of a proximate “other”. LÄS MER
27. 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
28. Det sanna snillet : Genus och geni hos Thomas Thorild
Sammanfattning : In the eighteenth century, the word genius acquired a new meaning – that of extraordinary endowment – and started to be used to denote a particular type of superior human being. Author and philosopher Thomas Thorild (1759–1808) introduced this new concept in Sweden. LÄS MER
29. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe
Sammanfattning : After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. LÄS MER
30. Making Metal Making : Circulation and Workshop Practices in the Swedish Metal Trades, 1730–1775
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is concerned with the making of metal making. It explores how skills, knowledge, and artefacts were circulated and grounded within the Swedish metal trades during the period ca. 1730 to 1775. It also analyses how these processes were related to different ways of organising practices of work. LÄS MER
