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1. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER
2. The Victorian Governess Novel
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. LÄS MER
3. Knowledge and survival in the novels of Thomas Hardy
Sammanfattning : This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER
4. "Vi, civilisationens ljusbärare" : orientalistiska mönster i det sena 1800-talets svenska litteratur och kultur
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with Orientalism as it occurs in the period in Swedish literary and cultural history commonly known as “nittitalet” (the nineties), roughly the last decade of the 19th century. The study explores how the interest for the so-called Orient is manifested in works of fiction and poetry as well as in works of non-fiction genres. LÄS MER
5. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
Sammanfattning : Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism. LÄS MER