Sökning: "history and literature -- nineteenth century"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden history and literature -- nineteenth century.
16. Den wallinska dikten : Från informatorsåren till Dödens ängel
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the poetry of Johan Olof Wallin from the first poems of the early nineteenth century up to "The Angel of Death" ("Dödens Engel"). Johan Olof Wallin (1779-1839), poet, orator and preacher, member of the Swedish Academy and subsequently Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, was one of the most important cultural figures of his day. LÄS MER
17. Och nu börjar historien : Hjalmar Söderbergs novellkonst
Sammanfattning : Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) published some seventy short stories in five collections, Historietter (1898), Främlingarna (1903), Det mörknar öfver vägen (1907), Den talangfulla draken (1913) and Resan till Rom (1929). The present study explores Söderberg’s short fiction from a genre-historical and genre-theoretical perspective. LÄS MER
18. The Discourse of Oratory : The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Sammanfattning : The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. LÄS MER
19. Family Matters : Essays on Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014
Sammanfattning : Family Matters – Essays of Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014 is a study of family business groups in the Philippines. It consists of an introductory essay and four separate papers. LÄS MER
20. A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
Sammanfattning : In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra Leone is valuable for it allows to examine social stratification in an alleged egalitarian context. LÄS MER
