Sökning: "nineteenth-century novel"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden nineteenth-century novel.
1. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. 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. En omskriven historia : Svensk historisk roman och novell före 1867 : the Swedish historical novel and short story before 1867
Sammanfattning : The historical novel was a new genre in Sweden during the 1820's. It had emerged as a popular literary form in Europe with the writings of Walter Scott, whose Waverley, or t'is sixty years since (1814) is widely regarded as the first historical novel. LÄS MER
4. Dynamic Decades: A micro perspective on late nineteenth century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines various aspects of mobility during the closing decades of the nineteenth century in Sweden. In terms of the pace and magnitude of the changes taking place during this industrial breakthrough, no other period in Swedish history compares. LÄS MER
5. En strid för det som borde vara : Viktor Rydberg som moderniseringskritiker 1891–1895
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the critique of modernization in the late work of Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895). The primary objects of study are the novel Vapensmeden (”The Armourer”) and the essay ”Den hvita rasens framtid” (”The Future of the White Race”). LÄS MER
