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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 61 avhandlingar innehållade orden late nineteenth century.
16. 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
17. Flickan i medicinen : ungdom, kön och sjuklighet 1870-1930
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to study and analyze how concepts of childhood and adolescence were constructed in scientific medicine during the period 1870 to 1930. The focus in the first part of the thesis is to study the sick girl as a stereotype in 1870–1900. LÄS MER
18. Care and Coercion : medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1785-1903
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the history of venereal diseases in Sweden in the period from 1785 to 1903. Medical and political perceptions of these diseases as well as the patients and their continued lives have been studied. Venereal diseases were considered a significant threat to the growth of the population throughout the period. LÄS MER
19. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
Sammanfattning : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. LÄS MER
20. Som folk är mest : Könsideal i svenska kontaktannonser 1890–1980
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates 5,000 descriptions of men and women in search for a life partner of the opposite sex through classifieds 1890-1980. The advertisers’ descriptions of who they are and what they want sketches a picture of the expectations everyday people have had on how men and women should be over almost a hundred years. LÄS MER