Sökning: "sentimentalism"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet sentimentalism.

  1. 1. Känslans patriark : sensibilitet och känslopraktiker i Carl Christoffer Gjörwells familj och vänskapskrets, ca 1790-1810

    Författare :Ina Lindblom; Jonas Liliequist; Jonny Hjelm; Charlotta Wolff; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sensibility; sentimentalism; emotional practices; emotional community; history of emotions; eighteenth century; Carl Christoffer Gjörwell; friendship; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of how the culture of sensibility was expressed in the everyday practices and social relations of the Gjörwell family. Headed by publicist, publisher and royal librarian Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (1731-1811), the Gjörwell family served as the centre of a wide circle of friends in late 18th-century Stockholm. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Between Colonialism and Nationalism : Art, History, and Politics in James Joyce’s Ulysses

    Författare :Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva; Ishrat Lindblad; Richard Brown; Emer Nolan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :English language; James Joyce; aesthetics; modernism; negativity; the modernist Sublime; modernity; liberalism; colonialism; nationalism; dialectical criticism; Hegel; Adorno; Rose; Jameson; Žižek; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Through a thorough analysis of all eighteen episodes of Ulysses, this study advances a dialectical reading of Ireland’s pre-revolutionary imagination as it unfolds in James Joyce’s novel. By tracing Joyce’s engagements with British colonialism, national romanticism and the Celtic Revival, this study views Joyce’s modernist project as a comprehensive literary response to Ireland’s changing aesthetic sensibilities, political fortunes, and social concerns. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s

    Författare :Anna Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; West-Jane; Smith-Charlotte; Bennett-Anna-Maria; novel; eighteenth-century; circulating-library; review; parody; irony; free-indirect-discourse; innovation; common-reader; gossip; Quixote; education; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    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

  5. 4. Kärlekens språk : adel, kärlek och äktenskap 1750-1900

    Författare :Brita Planck; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adel; äktenskap; Sverige; 1700-tal; 1800-tal; brev; kärlek; känslohistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the attitudes towards marriage for love among the Swedish aristocracy from 1750 to 1900. It also explores how the expression and experience of love transformed during the same period. LÄS MER