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Cornell University
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DeGooyer, Stephanie.
Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2013, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33931 
► Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and Mary Shelley transformed the art of the novel in order to promote…
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▼ Over the course of the long
eighteenth century, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and Mary Shelley transformed the art of the novel in order to promote new forms of sympathetic identification. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to ridicule the presumptive politics of sentimentality-whether through depictions of over-indulgent introspection, disconnected observation, or physical and sensory incapacity. My project, Subjects of Feeling, addresses these issues only to assign the
eighteenth-
century sentimental novel an unarticulated political purpose. I argue that the supposed artificiality of sentimental narratives-precisely the qualities that lead to charges of their being too theatrical, bathetic, digressive, out of proportion, and unnatural-is not a sign of their failure to be politically transformative, nor a symptom of ideological critique. Against the critical assumption that social connection requires literary practices associated with realism (correspondence, resemblance, and mimesis), my readings demonstrate that it is precisely the refusal to fully naturalize or authenticate objects of representation that allows sentimental narratives to reconfigure who can be seen as a "natural"
subject of feeling-and thus as a
subject of politics. The formal configurations of
eighteenth-
century sentimental
literature, I argue, embody the "silent" passage from a representative regime of art concerned with roles and genres to the Romantic expressive regime where anybody can become a
subject.
Advisors/Committee Members: Saccamano, Neil Charles (chair), Brown, Laura Schaefer (committee member), Culler, Jonathan Dwight (committee member), Bogel, Fredric Victor (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Sentimentality; Revolution; Eighteenth-Century Literature
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APA (6th Edition):
DeGooyer, S. (2013). Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33931
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
DeGooyer, Stephanie. “Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33931.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
DeGooyer, Stephanie. “Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
DeGooyer S. Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33931.
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DeGooyer S. Subjects Of Feeling: The Politics And Form Of Sentimental Fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33931
Loughborough University
2.
Lippold, Eva.
'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800.
Degree: PhD, 2018, Loughborough University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/33407
► The eighteenth century saw a remarkable increase in the number of works written by women, and also the number of women who made a living…
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▼ The eighteenth century saw a remarkable increase in the number of works written by women, and also the number of women who made a living by writing. For the first time, being a writer was a viable career choice for a woman, and it was possible to support a family by writing, despite the backlash some individual writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, faced for their work. This thesis focuses on the work women did in the eighteenth-century theatre, and how they reconciled the demands of being a professional writer with their society's gender expectations. By analysing a variety of play texts written by different women, I show that they engaged critically with ideas about female virtue, the marriage market, and women's participation in the literary scene, the working world, and national politics. The plays of this period are relatively under-researched, and often do not appear at all in critical studies of eighteenth-century literature. My aim, therefore, is to rectify this situation, and to join other critics in rediscovering this interesting and vital era of female playwriting.
Subjects/Keywords: 822.009; Playwrights; Women writers; Eighteenth-century literature; Eighteenth-century theatre
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Lippold, E. (2018). 'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800. (Doctoral Dissertation). Loughborough University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2134/33407
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lippold, Eva. “'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Loughborough University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2134/33407.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lippold, Eva. “'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800.” 2018. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lippold E. 'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Loughborough University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/33407.
Council of Science Editors:
Lippold E. 'Most women have no character at all' : female playwrights and the London Theatre, 1760-1800. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Loughborough University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/33407
University of Cambridge
3.
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui.
Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289766
► This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld’s book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This…
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▼ This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld’s book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This genre, which has not yet been theorised, may be identified by the way the texts present themselves as verisimilar and replicable sets of conversations, and depict parent-teachers and child-pupils as companions. This genre challenges the idea that there is a dichotomy between ‘adult’ and ‘child’ readers, a concept that inflects many contemporary approaches to children’s literature studies. Through a close reading of Lessons for Children and subsequent conversational primers, this thesis suggests that Barbauld’s Rational Dissenting value of discursive diversity influenced British middle-class children’s culture, enabling the voices of verisimilar children to proliferate children’s books on a previously unknown scale.
The Introduction establishes ways in which concepts of child-parent relationships were used as paradigms for understanding modes of government in eighteenth-century Britain. Chapter One examines how children’s books prior to Lessons for Children addressed different types of implied child readers with the aim of producing members of an ideal society. Chapter Two explores how Barbauld created a space in which parents could participate in the children’s literature market through her introduction of the parent-author as a literary trope, her portrayals of verisimilar mother-child interactions in accessible, domestic spaces. Chapter Three charts how Lessons for Children became the prototype from which subsequent conversational primers drew their literary identity. The fourth chapter contextualises Lessons for Children as an expression of Barbauld’s Rational Dissent, and posits that the rise of the conversational primer is indicative of the influence of Rational Dissenting values upon British middle-class children’s culture. Chapter Five contrasts the afterlife of the conversational primer with children’s books that generated readers’ imaginative identification with characters. This comparison suggests that conversational primers encapsulated middle-class Georgian ideals regarding familial learning; an historical specificity that is, in part, responsible for the genre’s popular demise.
This thesis studies the lifecycle of the conversational primer in the British children’s literature market. It examines the porousness between paratextual materials and texts, and shows how an individual author stimulated generic development by popularising specific literary tropes. By theorising the genre of the conversational primer, this study provides a new and productive discourse concerning adult-child interactions in children’s literature.
Subjects/Keywords: Anna Letitia Barbauld; Children's literature; Eighteenth century; Long Eighteenth Century
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Lim, J. W. H. (2019). Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289766
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui. “Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289766.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui. “Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lim JWH. Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289766.
Council of Science Editors:
Lim JWH. Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289766
University of Cambridge
4.
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui.
Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Cambridge
URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37007
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767728
► This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld's book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This…
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▼ This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld's book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This genre, which has not yet been theorised, may be identified by the way the texts present themselves as verisimilar and replicable sets of conversations, and depict parent-teachers and child-pupils as companions. This genre challenges the idea that there is a dichotomy between 'adult' and 'child' readers, a concept that inflects many contemporary approaches to children's literature studies. Through a close reading of Lessons for Children and subsequent conversational primers, this thesis suggests that Barbauld's Rational Dissenting value of discursive diversity influenced British middle-class children's culture, enabling the voices of verisimilar children to proliferate children's books on a previously unknown scale. The Introduction establishes ways in which concepts of child-parent relationships were used as paradigms for understanding modes of government in eighteenth-century Britain. Chapter One examines how children's books prior to Lessons for Children addressed different types of implied child readers with the aim of producing members of an ideal society. Chapter Two explores how Barbauld created a space in which parents could participate in the children's literature market through her introduction of the parent-author as a literary trope, her portrayals of verisimilar mother-child interactions in accessible, domestic spaces. Chapter Three charts how Lessons for Children became the prototype from which subsequent conversational primers drew their literary identity. The fourth chapter contextualises Lessons for Children as an expression of Barbauld's Rational Dissent, and posits that the rise of the conversational primer is indicative of the influence of Rational Dissenting values upon British middle-class children's culture. Chapter Five contrasts the afterlife of the conversational primer with children's books that generated readers' imaginative identification with characters. This comparison suggests that conversational primers encapsulated middle-class Georgian ideals regarding familial learning; an historical specificity that is, in part, responsible for the genre's popular demise. This thesis studies the lifecycle of the conversational primer in the British children's literature market. It examines the porousness between paratextual materials and texts, and shows how an individual author stimulated generic development by popularising specific literary tropes. By theorising the genre of the conversational primer, this study provides a new and productive discourse concerning adult-child interactions in children's literature.
Subjects/Keywords: 820.8; Anna Letitia Barbauld; Children's literature; Eighteenth century; Long Eighteenth Century
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Lim, J. W. H. (2019). Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37007 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767728
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui. “Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37007 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767728.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lim, Jessica Wen Hui. “Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lim JWH. Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37007 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767728.
Council of Science Editors:
Lim JWH. Lessons after Barbauld : the conversational primer in late-eighteenth-century Britain. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37007 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767728
University of Toronto
5.
Parker, Erin.
Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
Degree: 2013, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70120
► Eighteenth-century English writers imagined domestication as the education of animals, as a mutually beneficial contract between species, as a form of cruelty and exploitation, and…
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▼ Eighteenth-century English writers imagined domestication as the education of animals, as a mutually beneficial contract between species, as a form of cruelty and exploitation, and as an extension of hospitality. This study analyses how these diverse literary portrayals of domestication intersect and what they can tell us about eighteenth-century Britons’ conflicted and conflicting feelings about humans’ close relationships with creatures different from, and yet similar to, themselves. I argue that representations of domestication—as an improving or destructive, collaborative or coercive process—provide valuable insights into how eighteenth-century English writers and their readers positioned themselves in relation to animals and dealt with the challenges of “accommodating” or “making room” for animals within their houses and their communities. Each chapter focuses on a different depiction of domestication and the questions it raises about the extent of animals’ capabilities and proximity to humans. I begin with texts that present domestication in terms of education and, in so doing, suggest a link between animals and children. Chapter one examines natural histories and pedagogical treatises that separate animals’ ability to learn from their possession of reason; literary responses to the learned pig and its rumored talent at spelling; and fables and stories for children that entertain the possibility of interspecies collaboration in the classroom. In chapter two, using Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa as a case study, I trace how seemingly progressive representations of domestication as a contract which has the informed and voluntary consent of both parties can be used to legitimise oppressive treatment. In chapter three, I explore the connections drawn between domestication and hospitality—and between pets, menagerie animals, guests, and captives—in texts by Francis Coventry, Sarah Trimmer, William Cowper, Gilbert White, and others. The thesis concludes with a brief look at the continued relevance of eighteenth-century representations of domestication today.
PhD
Advisors/Committee Members: Lynch, Deidre, English.
Subjects/Keywords: eighteenth-century literature; animal studies; domestication; 0401
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APA (6th Edition):
Parker, E. (2013). Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70120
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Parker, Erin. “Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70120.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Parker, Erin. “Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Parker E. Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70120.
Council of Science Editors:
Parker E. Accommodating the Animal: Domestication in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70120
Purdue University
6.
Mitsein, Rebekah Kurtz.
Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, Purdue University
URL: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1280
► This dissertation argues that African worlds and worldviews left an indelible mark on British Enlightenment texts, whether their authors encountered the continent first or secondhand.…
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▼ This dissertation argues that African worlds and worldviews left an indelible mark on British Enlightenment texts, whether their authors encountered the continent first or secondhand. As
eighteenth-
century thinkers began experimenting with empirical and categorical strategies for making sense of the globe, Africa was an important testing ground for these burgeoning epistemological methodologies. Travelers and writers tried to reconcile observer-based methods of knowledge production with the continent’s reputedly impenetrable landscapes, unfamiliar cultures, and strange animals. Such inquiries engendered broader philosophical debates about the natures of nature, the body, and the self. Yet, I contend Africa was not a passive participant in this process. Not only did African environments undermine European attempts to reduce the continent to empirical data; as such epistemological methods failed, writers filled in their texts with African knowledge and narratives. As a result, African representational practices, economics, technologies, medical advances, and even thoughts on the body and soul became an inextricable part of British Enlightenment discourse.
Advisors/Committee Members: Manushag N Powell, Christopher J Lukasik, Geraldine Friedman, Wendy L Belcher.
Subjects/Keywords: Africa; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Travel Writing
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Mitsein, R. K. (2016). Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780. (Doctoral Dissertation). Purdue University. Retrieved from https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1280
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mitsein, Rebekah Kurtz. “Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Purdue University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1280.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mitsein, Rebekah Kurtz. “Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mitsein RK. Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Purdue University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1280.
Council of Science Editors:
Mitsein RK. Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Purdue University; 2016. Available from: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1280
University of Notre Dame
7.
Erin E Drew.
The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>.
Degree: English, 2013, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/bg257d29c2z
► Since the field’s inception in the 1990s, ecocriticism has characterized eighteenth-century thinkers as imperialist and utilitarian. Treating romanticism as the dawn of an environmentalist…
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▼ Since the field’s inception in the 1990s,
ecocriticism has characterized
eighteenth-
century thinkers as
imperialist and utilitarian. Treating romanticism as the dawn of an
environmentalist re-enchantment of the world, ecocritics claimed
that
eighteenth-
century writers saw nature as inert matter upon
which to assert human mastery. Their critiques had some basis; many
— perhaps most —
eighteenth-
century writers saw the use of nature
for human benefit as both a necessity and a divine right. Yet as
eighteenth-
century scholars like Christopher Hitt, David Fairer and
Sylvia Bowerbank have pointed out,
eighteenth-
century writers and
texts expressed care and concern for the non-human world as often
as they asserted mastery over it. In fact, simultaneously
advocating anthropocentric utilitarianism and ecocentric care of
nature is, as Hitt argues, characteristic of
eighteenth-
century
writers. The challenge now is to recover the ecocentric aspects of
eighteenth-
century thought that were left out of early ecocritical
accounts without glossing over the period’s
utilitarianism. My dissertation examines the
ways
eighteenth-
century writers attempted to reconcile human
beings’ right to profit from nature with their responsibility to
protect it. Because
eighteenth-
century thinkers saw use and care as
complementary rather than contradictory goals, I argue that their
attitude to nature is best described by the concept of “usufruct.”
A legal term for the “right of temporary possession, use, or
enjoyment of the advantages of property belonging to another, so
far as may be had without causing damage or prejudice” (OED),
usufruct explicitly combines the right to use nature for human
benefit with the responsibility to steward it for future
generations.
Eighteenth-
century writers, I show, were acutely aware
of the interdependence of human and non-human beings, and believed
that human beings had a responsibility to use nature in a way that
would guarantee the ongoing stability of non-human and human life.
Tracing the concept of usufruct in
eighteenth-
century literature
reveals that the period’s writers grappled more profoundly and
consistently with the need to reconcile the often-contradictory
ethical imperatives to improve human life and steward non-human
life than has previously been appreciated by either ecocritics or
eighteenth-
century scholars.
Advisors/Committee Members: Margaret Doody, Committee Member, Christopher Fox, Committee Member, John Sitter, Committee Chair.
Subjects/Keywords: usufruct; nature literature; enlightenment; eighteenth-century nature literature; environmental history; environmental criticism; british literature; ecocriticism; eighteenth-century poetry; eighteenth-century literature; environmental literature
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Drew, E. E. (2013). The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>. (Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/bg257d29c2z
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Drew, Erin E. “The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>.” 2013. Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/bg257d29c2z.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Drew, Erin E. “The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Drew EE. The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/bg257d29c2z.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Drew EE. The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in
Eighteenth-Century Literature</h1>. [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2013. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/bg257d29c2z
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Columbia University
8.
Gemmill, Kathleen Doherty.
Novel Conversations, 1740-1817.
Degree: 2017, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1RJB
► “Novel Conversations” examines how and why eighteenth-century novelists came to represent people interacting in ways that registered as lively and real. Speech had long been…
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▼ “Novel Conversations” examines how and why eighteenth-century novelists came to represent people interacting in ways that registered as lively and real. Speech had long been crucial in literary genres as varied as drama, philosophical dialogue, romance and narrative poetry; but techniques for representing speech would proliferate in the eighteenth century as writers gave conversation a new centrality in the novel, seeking to capture the manner of speech over and above its basic matter. “Novel Conversations” explores this literary-historical development with chapters on four writers who were especially interested in the technical challenge of recording vocal effects: Samuel Richardson, James Boswell, Frances Burney and Jane Austen. They developed a set of tools for rendering in prose the auditory and social nuances of conversation, including tone and emphasis, pacing and pausing, gesture and movement. I argue that their experiments resulted in a new “transcriptional realism” in the novel. This term describes the range of techniques used to craft dialogue that faithfully approximates the features of real speech, while remaining meaningful and effectual as an element of prose narrative.
In developing methods to this end, eighteenth-century writers borrowed techniques from other genres, combined them, and invented new ones. One rich source was life writing, the broad category of documentary prose genres that both absorbed and influenced the novel form in its early stages. Writers also sought complementary techniques in drama, whose stage directions, tonal notations and cues about who is speaking to whom at what point in time could be readily adapted for prose narrative. The task at hand was to calibrate two often opposing styles: the empirically driven, transcriptional mode of life writing and the more overtly stylized mode of drama. Writers did so by developing two resources within the novel form: the narrator, who occupies a flexible platform from which to elaborate conversational dynamics with description; and print itself, with all of its graphic and spatial possibilities for shaping speech on the page, including accidentals, line breaks, and typography. What are in one sense formalist readings are complemented by a careful attention to the materiality of the manuscript page and the printed page. In approaching my primary authors’ texts from a technical perspective, I do justice to their experimental efforts to use writing as a technology for capturing voice: a recording device avant la lettre. This approach in turn gives me critical purchase to analyze the effect that this technology serves: detailed representations of characters operating in a lively, familiar social world.
Subjects/Keywords: Eighteenth century; English prose literature; Speech in literature; English literature
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Gemmill, K. D. (2017). Novel Conversations, 1740-1817. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1RJB
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gemmill, Kathleen Doherty. “Novel Conversations, 1740-1817.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1RJB.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gemmill, Kathleen Doherty. “Novel Conversations, 1740-1817.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Gemmill KD. Novel Conversations, 1740-1817. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1RJB.
Council of Science Editors:
Gemmill KD. Novel Conversations, 1740-1817. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZW1RJB
Columbia University
9.
Aschkenes, Deborah.
In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.
Degree: 2015, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV
► In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel argues that the British novel, in its syntactic, grammatical, and rhetorical strategies, incorporated…
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▼ In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel argues that the British novel, in its syntactic, grammatical, and rhetorical strategies, incorporated associationist premises about reading comprehension. Associationism, as a term, encapsulates a series of theories during the period that attempted to explain the ways in which external stimuli were "represented" in the mind and linked with other ideas. Inquiries into the association of ideas spanned numerous fields but shared a core belief: everything an individual touched, saw, smelled, or read, was translated into a secondary representation in the mind. Since all objects – whether a phrase, a misty moor, or a character's face – were thought to be experienced through mental "miniatures," the association of ideas was the mechanism of the reading experience and of phenomenal experience. Associationist theories delineated how words evoked images, and the ways in which these images became linked to form holistic ideas in the course of a sentence, a paragraph, and throughout a work of fiction.
In this project, I show how four canonical nineteenth-century authors – Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot – created prose styles intended to evoke, enhance, or even resist the spontaneous associative mechanisms considered essential to the comprehension of language. In order to trace the contours of an associative stylistics during the period, I pair each author with associationist theories contemporary with their fiction. In Chapter One, I demonstrate how Jane Austen's techniques in Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility incorporated the tenets of the dominant model of associationism in Austen's day: those of David Hartley. Austen's mode of representation is highly metonymic, capitalizing on of principles of language comprehension proposed in Hartley's work. The great degree of stylistic control so often attributed to Austen's prose is inextricably rooted with the Hartleyan paradigm: a strategy of representation to depict a social world and its objects according to an associationist epistemology. In Chapter Two, I read Sir Walter Scott's Waverley with the theories of his teacher Dugald Stewart. Walter Scott studied with Dugald Stewart at the University of Edinburgh and in Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Stewart develops literary-aesthetic guidelines based on the mental models posited in his work. Stewart recommends that a writer delineate in the form of an "outline," a "minimum" required for the reader to comprehend a represented object. Stewart's theories about language cognition and literary technique, I argue, provide guidelines for Scott's development of his own style of literary outline. In Chapter Three, I unfold how Charles Dickens's style in David Copperfield draws on the associative principles in Lindley Murray's English Grammar. In Murray's Grammar, the sentence is a unit of cognition: a precise capsule in which our thoughts are both formed and…
Subjects/Keywords: Eighteenth century; English fiction; British literature; Irish literature
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Aschkenes, D. (2015). In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Aschkenes, Deborah. “In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Aschkenes, Deborah. “In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Aschkenes D. In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV.
Council of Science Editors:
Aschkenes D. In the Mind's Eye: Associationism and Style in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Z89BFV
Wilfrid Laurier University
10.
Rangaratnam, Sarah.
Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800.
Degree: 2018, Wilfrid Laurier University
URL: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2104
► Just as they do today, adolescent girls functioned as a cultural force in the eighteenth century, and it was commercially viable for authors and publishers…
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▼ Just as they do today, adolescent girls functioned as a cultural force in the eighteenth century, and it was commercially viable for authors and publishers to attract and sustain the attention of these teenaged readers. Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, examines how four female authors leveraged elements of fairy tales, romances and gothic fiction, and developed dialogue and humour in their texts, to reflect the interests and literary awareness of their target audience of adolescent girls. My study begins with an investigation of the legacy of early French fairy tales in these texts, particularly in the work of Sarah Fielding, who was inspired by the potential of the fairy tale form and its cast of female protagonists. I then study the work of Mary Ann and Dorothy Kilner, who demonstrated the adolescent’s increasing awareness of power imbalances in the larger, adult world, and gave voice to the underdog in class and gender hierarchies. Finally, I consider the voice of female characters in the texts of Ellenor Fenn, who was subversive in her use of fairy tale and gothic features, recognizing that both genres were popular in the period with adolescent readers. Fenn was especially unique for her conscious appropriation of teenage colloquial speech in an attempt to entertain and engage her youthful audiences. Fielding, Fenn, and the Kilners recognized the potential of a new genre of text – the real precursor, it could be argued, to the contemporary YA novel – in which narrative form was expressly tailored to appeal to and to address the adolescent girls themselves. As experienced pedagogues, their intimacy with the young people in their care provided insight into the experience of eighteenth-century youth. This understanding especially shines in their work for adolescent girls, in which dialogue is rich, and characters seem to speak for the first time in their own voices.
Subjects/Keywords: Eighteenth century; Girls; Children; English; literature; Children's and Young Adult Literature
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Rangaratnam, S. (2018). Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800. (Thesis). Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved from https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2104
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rangaratnam, Sarah. “Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800.” 2018. Thesis, Wilfrid Laurier University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2104.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rangaratnam, Sarah. “Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800.” 2018. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rangaratnam S. Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800. [Internet] [Thesis]. Wilfrid Laurier University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2104.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rangaratnam S. Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800. [Thesis]. Wilfrid Laurier University; 2018. Available from: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2104
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of South Florida
11.
Cook, Jessica Lauren.
Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson.
Degree: 2014, University of South Florida
URL: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5205
► Women Poets and Place in Eighteenth-Century Poetry considers how four women poets of the long eighteenth century – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia…
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▼ Women Poets and Place in Eighteenth-Century Poetry considers how four women poets of the long eighteenth century – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Mary Robinson – construct various places in their poetry, whether the London social milieu or provincial England. I argue that the act of place making, or investing a location with meaning, through poetry is also a way of writing a place for themselves in the literary public sphere and in literary history. Despite the fact that more women wrote poetry than in any other genre in the period, women poets remain a relatively understudied area in eighteenth-century scholarship. My research is informed by place theory as defined by the fields of Human Geography and Ecocriticism; I consider how the poem reproduces material space and the nonhuman environment, as well as how place effectively shapes the individual. These four poets represent the gamut of career choices in this era, participating in manuscript and print culture, writing for hire and for leisure, publishing by subscription and through metropolitan booksellers. Each of these textual spaces serves as an illustration of how the poet's place, both geographically and socially speaking, influences the medium of circulation for the poetic text and the authorial persona she constructs in the process. By charting how each of these four poets approaches place – whether as the subject of their poetry or the poetic space itself – I argue that they offer us a way to destabilize and diversify the literary landscape of eighteenth-century poetry.
Subjects/Keywords: eighteenth-century British literature; place; women poets; English Language and Literature
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Cook, J. L. (2014). Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson. (Thesis). University of South Florida. Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5205
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cook, Jessica Lauren. “Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson.” 2014. Thesis, University of South Florida. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5205.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cook, Jessica Lauren. “Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson.” 2014. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cook JL. Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of South Florida; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5205.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Cook JL. Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson. [Thesis]. University of South Florida; 2014. Available from: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5205
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Duke University
12.
Manganaro, Thomas Salem.
Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
.
Degree: 2016, Duke University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12253
► This study focuses on a series of foundational stylistic and formal innovations in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, and argues that they can be cumulatively…
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▼ This study focuses on a series of foundational stylistic and formal innovations in
eighteenth-
century and Romantic
literature, and argues that they can be cumulatively attributed to the distinct challenges authors faced in representing human action and the will. The study focuses in particular on cases of “acting against better judgment” or “failing to do what one knows one ought to do” – concepts originally theorized as “akrasia” and “weakness of the will” in ancient Greek and Scholastic thought. During the Enlightenment, philosophy increasingly conceives of human minds and bodies like systems and machines, and consequently fails to address such cases except as intractable or incoherent. Yet
eighteenth-
century and Romantic narratives and poetry consistently engage the paradoxes and ambiguities of action and volition in representations of akrasia. As a result,
literature develops representational strategies that distinguish the epistemic capacities of
literature as privileged over those of philosophy. The study begins by centering on narratives of distempered selves from the 1760s. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey narrate cases of knowingly and weakly acting against better judgment, and in so doing, reveal the limitations of the “philosophy of the passions” that famously informed sentimental
literature at the time. These texts find that the interpretive difficulties of action demand a non-systematic and hermeneutic approach to interpreting a self through the genre of narrative. Rousseau’s narrative in particular informs William Godwin’s realist novels of distempered subjects. Departing from his mechanistic philosophy of mind and action, Godwin develops the technique of free indirect discourse in his third novel Fleetwood (1805) as a means of evoking the ironies and self-deceptions in how we talk about willing. Romantic poetry employs the literary trope of weakness of will primarily through the problem of regretted inaction – a problem which I argue motivates the major poetic innovations of William Wordsworth and John Keats. While Samuel Taylor Coleridge sought to characterize his weakness of will in philosophical writing, Wordsworth turns to poetry with The Prelude (1805), revealing poetry itself to be a self-deceiving and disappointing form of procrastination. More explicitly than Wordsworth, John Keats identifies indolence as the prime symbol and basis of what he calls “negative capability.” In his letters and poems such as “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817) and “Ode on Indolence” (1819), Keats reveals how the irreducibly contradictory qualities of human agency speak to the particular privilege of “disinterested aesthetics” – a genre fitted for the modern era for its ability to disclose contradictions without seeking to resolve or explain them in terms of component parts.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pfau, Thomas (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: English literature;
Eighteenth-Century Literature;
Philosophy of Action;
Romanticism
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Manganaro, T. S. (2016). Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
. (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12253
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Manganaro, Thomas Salem. “Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
.” 2016. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12253.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Manganaro, Thomas Salem. “Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Manganaro TS. Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12253.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Manganaro TS. Akrasia and the Aesthetic: Human Agency and the Site of Literature, 1760-1820
. [Thesis]. Duke University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12253
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Texas – Austin
13.
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie.
Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century.
Degree: PhD, English, 2019, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5785
► This dissertation considers some ways that friendship was imagined in the fledgling years of our globalized Western culture. The pathos of friendship is not exempt…
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▼ This dissertation considers some ways that friendship was imagined in the fledgling years of our globalized Western culture. The pathos of friendship is not exempt from the pressures of culture and economy, particularly those of transatlantic capitalism in the
eighteenth century. It is impossible to pinpoint when capitalism began to undermine the ethos of expressive friendship, but the three texts in this dissertation offer distinctive modes for accessing neoclassical language to describe the uncertainties of life produced by one’s valuation as capital. The overarching intention of this study is to consider the dimensional intimacies of friendship born from the forcible removal of one’s humanity. While the first two chapters consider the white individual’s responsibility for globalized and colonized friendships, the third offers a view of intimate black futurity rebuilt on the ashes of our history.
Chapter One uses Tobias Smollett’s novel The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) to disambiguate friendship as a contractual obligation born of interest. The titular character engages a series of friends in his search for wealth and love throughout this picaresque novel; his experiences highlight “friendship” as an ambiguous term easily (re)defined. Chapter Two examines the friendship of white womanhood in Susanna Rowson’s Reuben and Rachel: A Tale of Old Times (1798) to question the benevolent assumptions undergirding the sensibility studies of the Early American republic. The third and final chapter considers black friendship and futurity, as distilled by the transatlantic diaspora, by mapping the spiritual neighborhood one joins when reading Phillis Wheatley’s poetry while black. I explore Wheatley’s friendship with Obour Tanner; her potential friendship with Scipio Moorhead; the imagined community her words engendered in Ignatius Sancho and Jupiter Hammon; and the twenty-first
century black femmes who find futurity in Phillis Wheatley. My short Coda will explore some of the ways that queer black friendship embodies a particular vulnerability, which our failing capitalist society refuses to confront as it builds narratives of security on white supremacist notions of sustainability.
Advisors/Committee Members: Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne) (advisor), Bertelsen, Lance (committee member), Cox, James H (committee member), Woodard, Helena (committee member), Wigginton, Caroline (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Eighteenth century; Transatlantic literature; Friendship; Kinship; Imagined community; Vulnerability
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Davis, C. M. (2019). Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5785
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie. “Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5785.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davis, Carolyn Marjorie. “Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Davis CM. Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5785.
Council of Science Editors:
Davis CM. Imagined intimacy : friendship, conquest, and futurity in the transatlantic eighteenth century. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5785
University of Maryland
14.
Bauer, Mariah Mitchell Lynch.
Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer.
Degree: English Language and Literature, 2011, University of Maryland
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11625
► In the "General Introduction" of his Account of the Voyages and Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (1773), John Hawkesworth writes that Captain James Cook's portion…
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▼ In the "General Introduction" of his Account of the Voyages and Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (1773), John Hawkesworth writes that Captain James Cook's portion of the Account is written up from logs kept by the Captain, Sir Joseph Banks, and from "other papers equally authentic." Hawkesworth makes a more surprising admission in revealing that his relation of Cook's Account was influenced, specifically, by Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740), and so Richardson's domestic heroine becomes a model for the greatest male adventurer of the age. Hawkesworth's inclination to lean upon a literary model in his effort to textually "domesticate" his rendition of Captain Cook is not as unusual as the editor's open admission of intent and his candid citing of the Pamela source. This project rests upon the assertion that there is far less division between the travel log and the novel than previously argued, and that the writers of period travel narratives drew upon the same themes and used the same aesthetic strategies that novelists deployed. Further, it is my contention that this aesthetic formulation – this peculiar brand of domestic heroism borrowed from period novels and their heroines that is appropriated by the constructed male adventurer and enables him to separate and preserve himself from all external savagery – is a formulation that appears repeatedly in
eighteenth-
century travel
literature.
First, I will define "domestic" and describe the masculine variety of "domestic heroism" or "oeconomy" that is being appropriated by male adventurers. In the first two chapters, I will trace the dichotomy of the successful "domestic housewife" or "oeconomic" hero versus the undomesticated anti-hero through a set of examples: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (versus Swift's Gulliver) and Hawkesworth's Richardsonian Captain Cook (versus Bligh). In the third chapter, I will demonstrate that Mungo Park constructs himself as a deeply vulnerable, gothic, Ann Radcliffe heroine in his Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. In the final chapter, looking primarily at Dibdin's fictional Hannah Hewit; or, The Female Crusoe, I will argue that since the successful male adventurer must possess both female and male attributes, no room is left for the adventuring woman.
Advisors/Committee Members: Rosenthal, Laura (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: British & Irish Literature; History; Adventure Heroes; Domestic Novel; Eighteenth-Century British Novel; Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature; Gothic Novel
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Bauer, M. M. L. (2011). Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11625
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bauer, Mariah Mitchell Lynch. “Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer.” 2011. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11625.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bauer, Mariah Mitchell Lynch. “Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer.” 2011. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bauer MML. Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11625.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bauer MML. Novel Heroes: Domesticating the British, Eighteenth-Century Male Adventurer. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11625
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
15.
Glover, Danielle.
Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention.
Degree: PhD, 2017, Ulster University
URL: https://ulster.pure.elsevier.com/en/studentTheses/2a7e54f7-2dbf-4aff-97ab-749ead641efe
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793617
► This thesis examines three key anthologies by Bishop Thomas Percy as a means of discussing ideas of British identity. It is argued here that the…
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▼ This thesis examines three key anthologies by Bishop Thomas Percy as a means of discussing ideas of British identity. It is argued here that the imaginative construction of Britain in the century following the Union of 1707 is anthological in its nature, and therefore that anthology is an appropriate vehicle for national textual imaginings. This argument has been achieved by an examination of Hau Kiou Choaan (1761), Five Pieces of Runic Poetry (1763), and Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). This study situates these books in their contemporary contexts, such as the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century print culture, and Percy's epistolary network and establishment sympathies and connections, in order to come to a full understanding of their influences, impact, and uses in developing a poetry of nationhood. Percy's conception of Britain was of a Gothic nation, and this informed his work aesthetically and politically, but similar works such as James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry suggest alternative origins for the British native genius. This thesis argues that Britishness in the eighteenth century was an identity with inherent hybridity and plurality, and that for Percy it was predominantly informed by English establishment morals, culture, and politics, which we might term 'Cultural Anglicanism'. This study has been undertaken using primarily archival methods, but there is also a significant theoretical component, as the discipline of book history (under which studies of anthology fall) is opened to postcolonial, gendered, and class readings. By expanding the meaning of anthology to include national hybridities, this thesis has been able to suggest that other hybridities may be found in anthologies, taken as micro-canons, which may be subverted or upheld by anthologists and readers according to their own aims. In this sense, the anthology becomes an ideal textual expression of complex plural identities.
Subjects/Keywords: Thomas Percy; Anthology; Book history; Bibliography; Print culture; Ballads; Chinese literature; Icelandic literature; Eighteenth Century translation; Eighteenth Century print culture
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Glover, D. (2017). Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention. (Doctoral Dissertation). Ulster University. Retrieved from https://ulster.pure.elsevier.com/en/studentTheses/2a7e54f7-2dbf-4aff-97ab-749ead641efe ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793617
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Glover, Danielle. “Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Ulster University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://ulster.pure.elsevier.com/en/studentTheses/2a7e54f7-2dbf-4aff-97ab-749ead641efe ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793617.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Glover, Danielle. “Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Glover D. Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Ulster University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://ulster.pure.elsevier.com/en/studentTheses/2a7e54f7-2dbf-4aff-97ab-749ead641efe ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793617.
Council of Science Editors:
Glover D. Thomas Percy : literary anthology and national invention. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Ulster University; 2017. Available from: https://ulster.pure.elsevier.com/en/studentTheses/2a7e54f7-2dbf-4aff-97ab-749ead641efe ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.793617
Northeastern University
16.
Kenlon, Tabitha.
Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.
Degree: PhD, Department of English, 2014, Northeastern University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20004986
► Traditional literary criticism typically divides genres into discrete spheres, erecting barriers between plays and novels that are not entirely historically accurate. This dissertation argues that…
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▼ Traditional literary criticism typically divides genres into discrete spheres, erecting barriers between plays and novels that are not entirely historically accurate. This dissertation argues that in eighteenth-century England, the walls between theatre, novels, and conduct manuals were permeable to the point of being irrelevant, as writers participated in a three-part conversation about the social performance of gender roles. I examine the construction of the female ideal on Shakespeare's stage and in eighteenth-century English theatre, conduct manuals, and novels, establishing performance as a common practice linking the centuries and mediums. The casting of boy actors in women's roles on Shakespeare's stage, I contend, created a system of gender identification by presenting simultaneous depictions of transgression and propriety, which was recognizable well into the eighteenth century. Novels and conduct manuals borrowed performative techniques from the stage to imbue their female characters with a similar dual nature and ability to engage in respectable rebellion.
Subjects/Keywords: eighteenth-century English theater; eighteenth-century English novel; womanhood; Literature in English, British Isles; Theatre and Performance Studies
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Kenlon, T. (2014). Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). Northeastern University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20004986
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kenlon, Tabitha. “Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Northeastern University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20004986.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kenlon, Tabitha. “Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel.” 2014. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kenlon T. Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20004986.
Council of Science Editors:
Kenlon T. Performances of womanhood in the eighteenth-century English theatre and novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20004986
University of New Mexico
17.
Hunnings, Kelly J.
THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING.
Degree: English, 2019, University of New Mexico
URL: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/273
► My dissertation traces a term I call the “chaotic domestic” in the writing of a collection of eighteenth-century women laboring-class writers: Mary Barber, Mary…
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▼ My dissertation traces a term I call the “chaotic domestic” in the writing of a collection of
eighteenth-
century women laboring-class writers: Mary Barber, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, and Janet Little. The chaotic domestic in the hands of these writers is multi-layered and affect-driven, focusing as they do on issues regarding nation, class, and gender. As both a poetic trope and the seeming natural and dynamic state of the domestic sphere, the image of the domestic that this set of writers represents and defines is turbulent, unruly, and one that deals with the tangled web of local and global, public and private, gendered and classist identity politics. Most importantly, I seek to demonstrate how the chaotic domestic serves as something these writers
do to subvert class and gender systems that affect their public and private lives.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Gail Houston, Dr. Carolyn Woodward, Dr. Pamela Cheek, Dr. Donna Landry.
Subjects/Keywords: laboring-class poetry; women writers; eighteenth century; eighteenth-century poetry; domesticity; domestic; Ireland; England; Scotland; affect; English Language and Literature
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Hunnings, K. J. (2019). THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/273
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hunnings, Kelly J. “THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/273.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hunnings, Kelly J. “THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Hunnings KJ. THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/273.
Council of Science Editors:
Hunnings KJ. THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2019. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/273
Laurentian University
18.
Bertrand, Carmen.
Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
.
Degree: 2017, Laurentian University
URL: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2856
► This study looks at the poetry of labouring women writers in eighteenth-century England, specifically, Susannah Harrison, Elizabeth Hands, and Ann Wilson, who contributed substantial literary…
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▼ This study looks at the poetry of labouring women writers in eighteenth-century England,
specifically, Susannah Harrison, Elizabeth Hands, and Ann Wilson, who contributed substantial
literary works, but have remained mostly obscure. Their writing, along with the historical, social,
and political climate of the period are discussed. Many other labouring women writers of the
period have also made valuable contributions but have gone unnoticed, and although there has
been renewed interest in labouring writers and their works over the past three decades, the
majority, especially women, remain unknown. It is the intent of this author that the poetry of
Harrison, Hands, and Wilson, along with other labouring women authors will be observed and
recognized as significant contributions to eighteenth-century literature.
Subjects/Keywords: Susannah Harrison;
Elizabeth Hands;
Ann Wilson;
labour;
eighteenth-century labouring writers;
plebeian;
eighteenth-century literature;
labouring women;
religious writing
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Bertrand, C. (2017). Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
. (Thesis). Laurentian University. Retrieved from https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2856
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bertrand, Carmen. “Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
.” 2017. Thesis, Laurentian University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2856.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bertrand, Carmen. “Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bertrand C. Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Laurentian University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2856.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bertrand C. Excavating the obscure: labouring women, their writing, and eighteenth-century England
. [Thesis]. Laurentian University; 2017. Available from: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2856
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Liberty University
19.
Marken, Kyra Elizabeth.
"Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art.
Degree: 2011, Liberty University
URL: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/171
► Alexander Pope places antithetical terms in heroic couplets, emphasizing the relationship between opposing terms and holding them in a productive tension that prevents a misuse…
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▼ Alexander Pope places antithetical terms in heroic couplets, emphasizing the relationship between opposing terms and holding them in a productive tension that prevents a misuse or perversion of each term. Such tension is made possible by the framework within which an antithesis exists: Nature serves as a whole that encompasses both parts, reinforcing the proper boundaries of each term but insisting on a relationship between them. Pope's view of antithesis determined his stance on several key eighteenth century debates and was reflected in his taste in both poetry and gardening. The external antitheses he recognized and affirmed in nature were mirrored by internal antitheses in man's being, particularly his reason and imagination. Pope affirmed the proper, tempered use of each half of an antithesis, and recognized that a harmony, rather than a synthesis, is cultivated by a perpetual antithetical relationship between them. His acceptance of paradoxical truths is reflected in his affirmation of antithetical ideas. The productive coexistence of such ideas, the harmony that results, and man's inability to fully understand either through reason, all indicate the existence of mystery.
Subjects/Keywords: AlexaPope; antithesis; Eighteenth century; gardening; mystery; reason; Literature, General
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Marken, K. E. (2011). "Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art. (Masters Thesis). Liberty University. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/171
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Marken, Kyra Elizabeth. “"Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Liberty University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/171.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Marken, Kyra Elizabeth. “"Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art.” 2011. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Marken KE. "Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Liberty University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/171.
Council of Science Editors:
Marken KE. "Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art. [Masters Thesis]. Liberty University; 2011. Available from: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/171
UCLA
20.
Walle, Taylor Fontaine.
Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Degree: English, 2016, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xb4p89p
► This dissertation traces an alternative history of an understudied and often-maligned eighteenth-century genre: speech. Conventional narratives of the eighteenth century have tended to emphasize the…
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▼ This dissertation traces an alternative history of an understudied and often-maligned eighteenth-century genre: speech. Conventional narratives of the eighteenth century have tended to emphasize the increasing dominance of print, but my project recovers an active interest and confidence in spoken language. Despite a perception in the period that speech was transient, mutable, and vulnerable to corruption, I show that, paradoxically, eighteenth-century authors consistently turn to speech—both as a formal device and a conceptual trope—in order to legitimize their writing. Biographer and compulsive journal-writer James Boswell pursues self-knowledge through transcribed conversation; letter-writing lovers (Swift and Stella, Sterne and Eliza, Thrale Piozzi and Conway) establish intimacy through the trope of the “talking” letter; and female grammarians and lexicographers assert linguistic authority through their mastery of spoken language. These examples demonstrate that questions about the value of speech were at the crux of many pivotal eighteenth-century debates, including where to locate the authentic self, how best to standardize the English language, and what kinds of knowledge should matter or “count.” Moreover, these examples point to the role of speech in shaping four quintessential genres of the Enlightenment: the journal, the biography, the letter, and the dictionary or grammar. In looking at how spoken language influences writing, my work makes clear that the eighteenth-century debate about speech sets up a false dichotomy between these two categories; in fact, speech and writing are far more intimately connected than modern critics have allowed.
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Eighteenth century; Grammars; Letters; Orality; Oral tradition; Speech
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Walle, T. F. (2016). Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xb4p89p
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Walle, Taylor Fontaine. “Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature.” 2016. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xb4p89p.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Walle, Taylor Fontaine. “Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Walle TF. Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xb4p89p.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Walle TF. Viva Voce: Speech and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Literature. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xb4p89p
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of California – Riverside
21.
Howard, James Joseph.
The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century.
Degree: English, 2010, University of California – Riverside
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5q32j478
► This dissertation examines the relationship between the drama and the novel in the "Long" Eighteenth Century, with the focus on the women who wrote in…
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▼ This dissertation examines the relationship between the drama and the novel in the "Long" Eighteenth Century, with the focus on the women who wrote in both genres during this period and on the impact of female playwriting upon the evolution and refinement of the emerging English novel. Ten such writers are the subject of this study, starting with Aphra Behn and concluding with Frances Burney. The uneasy relationship women had with the theatre of the period has been well documented, and conventional wisdom has been that as the eighteenth century progressed, the novel became the preferred (or perhaps culturally imposed) literary venue for most female authors. However, my research reveals the succession of women writers who began their careers as dramatists, or wrote for the theatre soon after attempting other genres, continued unbroken throughout the eighteenth century. Most of these writers persisted in writing plays, even after they achieved success in fiction. It is true the production of novels, largely written by and for women, increased exponentially; but in a revised "feminist" version of the "rise of the novel" narrative, the dramatists in this study, such as Eliza Haywood, figure prominently in the development of the new genre, alongside their iconic male counterparts. There was a pattern of conformity and resistance in the work of these writers. They sought to achieve literary acceptance in the paternalistic public forum of the theatre by espousing traditional literary standards and conventions, and by extending those standards into the evolving genres of prose fiction. They also resisted, in their fiction, at least, "feminizing" trends that were developing as a result of the bourgeois fashions of sentiment and domestication, often by adopting the "masculine" classically based model of the novel established by Henry Fielding. Frances Burney's oeuvre represents the culmination of the eighteenth-century relationship between play writing and novel writing by women, but deviates from the pattern. As a frustrated, failed playwright, Burney sublimated her dramatic impulse more extensively into her fiction, especially Camilla and The Wanderer, infusing her novels with a distinctive, theatrical motif that anticipates the narrative innovation of Jane Austen's novels.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, English; Dramatists; Eighteenth Century; Novel; Theatre; Women
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Howard, J. J. (2010). The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century. (Thesis). University of California – Riverside. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5q32j478
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Howard, James Joseph. “The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century.” 2010. Thesis, University of California – Riverside. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5q32j478.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Howard, James Joseph. “The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century.” 2010. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Howard JJ. The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5q32j478.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Howard JJ. The English Novel's Cradle: The Theatre and the Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century. [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2010. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5q32j478
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Temple University
22.
Cabus, Andrea Leigh.
Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels.
Degree: PhD, 2010, Temple University
URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,75794
► English
Attention to Victorian reviews of eighteenth-century and Romantic novels reveals sympathy's importance to the survival of classic novels and its role as a catalyst…
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Attention to Victorian reviews of eighteenth-century and Romantic novels reveals sympathy's importance to the survival of classic novels and its role as a catalyst for critical standards that remain central. I demonstrate that reviewers used sympathy to describe a widespread but untheorized system of useful reading. Reviewers argue that rational sympathy could make reading a process of moral education. That is, if readers reject emotional stimulation, then reading about characters' motives teaches readers to evaluate the people and situations they encounter in the real world. By looking at already canonical novelists like Richardson, Fielding and Scott, by denying canonicity to gothic novelists, and by creating new classics with figures like Austen, Victorian reviewers engage sympathy to teach their readers how to read reviews and novels appropriately. In doing so, reviewers also alter the reviewing voice, making it more sympathetic as well as using it to cajole and convince readers (rather than expecting agreement based on the reviewer's expertise). Additionally, reviewers use persuasive techniques to build imagined relationships between readers, encouraging readers to take the moral ideals garnered from their reading and put them to use in relationships. I claim, then, that Victorian reviews, aimed at leisure readers, explore artistic questions primarily as contributors to sympathy and focus on how to read for moral and emotional education. As a result, crucial definitions and tenets about novel writing and reading are buried in paragraphs on morality or biography. If scholars understand why and how Victorian reviewers criticize novels, they will also recognize the complex arguments in these oft-derided articles. The result will be a fuller understanding of the history of novel criticism and a clearer picture of the values that guided the canonizing process during the Victorian period.
Temple University – Theses
Advisors/Committee Members: Newman, Steven, Mitchell, Sally, Logan, Peter Melville, Buurma, Rachel S..
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, British & Irish; Eighteenth-Century; Novel; Periodical; Reception; Romantic; Victorian
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Cabus, A. L. (2010). Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,75794
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cabus, Andrea Leigh. “Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,75794.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cabus, Andrea Leigh. “Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels.” 2010. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cabus AL. Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,75794.
Council of Science Editors:
Cabus AL. Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2010. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,75794
UCLA
23.
Kim, Boram Claire.
“A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel.
Degree: English, 2018, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48z9t175
► This dissertation argues that the ways in which eighteenth-century pioneers of the English novel played with narrative form challenges the conventional privileging of causality as…
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▼ This dissertation argues that the ways in which eighteenth-century pioneers of the English novel played with narrative form challenges the conventional privileging of causality as the organizational principle of plot by imparting value to deferral and digression. Until recently, Structuralist narratology’s faith in progression as the only viable momentum of novelistic plot has dominated scholarly treatment of digression, which has been cursory at best. My project proposes that collectively speaking, the formal idiosyncrasies so emblematic of eighteenth- century literature constituted an artistic response to a host of contemporary intellectual and technological innovations in the human ability to perceive.The long eighteenth century saw the parallel ascendances of empiricist thought led by scholars like David Hume and John Locke, and chronometric innovations that allowed for increasingly nuanced measurements of how time passes. I show that these transformations in the theory and practice of human perception, which subverted the concept of a divinely created objective world in favor of one that could be shaped by human perception and intervention, encouraged the stylistic experimentation in literature characteristic of the era. The Oriental tales of Antoine Galland and Frances Sheridan deploy the Orient as a backdrop for attesting the power of human induction and its ability to shape the world. Henry Fielding’s fiction presents itself as an alternative to historical writing, better able to capture the universal truths of human nature because of its ability to jettison the strictures of time and space. Laurence Sterne’s body of work replaces the logic of causality with the logic of contiguity as a way of challenging rationalism and readerly expectations that equate narrative progression with logical plot progression. These examples all point to the eighteenth century’s investment in using digression and deferral to contemplate alternatives to the traditional tripartite structure of plot at a crucial juncture in the solidification of the novel genre.
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Digression; Eighteenth century; Fielding; Novel; Oriental tale; Sterne
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Kim, B. C. (2018). “A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48z9t175
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kim, Boram Claire. ““A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel.” 2018. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48z9t175.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kim, Boram Claire. ““A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel.” 2018. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kim BC. “A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48z9t175.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kim BC. “A Little Out of Its Due Course”: The Appeal of the Digressive Chronotope in the Early English Novel. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/48z9t175
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Cornell University
24.
Cote, Sarah.
Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century.
Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36174
► My dissertation explains that, despite the nominal anachronism, camp has always inhabited literature of the long eighteenth century, namely those examples that were created from…
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▼ My dissertation explains that, despite the nominal anachronism, camp has always inhabited
literature of the long
eighteenth century, namely those examples that were created from and, to some degree, for those experiencing the world from a socially or sexually marginal perspective. To interpret as camp is to not only account for the excesses of style that often infuriate and discompose aesthetic and generic categories of the time period, although it can provide an explanatory motive for noticeably disruptive and even flamboyant literary style. A camp reading can also bring together seemingly disparate texts under the umbrella of alterity. It provides an ideal and common language for discussing formal and generic literary styles alongside feminist, queer, and cultural interpretations. Camp in the
eighteenth century is particularly well-positioned to make important contributions to ongoing discussions about the public sphere, the shifts in audience and reception among all media, and the influences of realism, especially relating to the bourgeois representations of affects and emotions. To me, camp is a parodic project, which means that it must bear a symbiotic relationship to the normative text or value that it plays up. Its parody is reliant on those modes opposed as "other" to their marginalized selves; in my examples, the target ranges among the heteronormative family, the orderly body, the sexual object, temporal mastery, aesthetic ownership, sentimental empathy, and even the self. I discuss Walpole's gothic obsession with the deadly influences of time and family; Charke's marketing of her own shame as a reparative autobiographical project; Pope's peevish but excessive and starstruck affection for the womanly things he mocks; and the forms of gendered excess produced by the sentimental novel's hypocritical erasure of its own self-centered pretense of nature.
Advisors/Committee Members: Brown, Laura Schaefer (chair), Salvato, Nicholas G (committee member), Hanson, Ellis (committee member), Bogel, Fredric Victor (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: eighteenth-century; drama literature parody; british english camp
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Cote, S. (2014). Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36174
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cote, Sarah. “Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36174.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cote, Sarah. “Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century.” 2014. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cote S. Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36174.
Council of Science Editors:
Cote S. Great Affectations: Camp Parody In The British Long Eighteenth Century. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36174
University of California – Irvine
25.
Mathews, Elizabeth Jean.
Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste.
Degree: English, 2018, University of California – Irvine
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/466519hb
► “Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste” analyzes portrayals of emotion in early gothic fiction, using the particular features…
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▼ “Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste” analyzes portrayals of emotion in early gothic fiction, using the particular features of these portrayals to explain variations in reception. Focusing on eighteenth-century British gothic works that have been harshly criticized either in their day or in ours, I discuss Eliza Parsons’s Castle of Wolfenbach, Matthew Lewis’s Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho, and Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, novels whose tumultuous reception histories especially beg questions about how and why readers judge and feel differently about literature. For instance, early reviewers of Udolpho express sorrow and terror in response to what they describe as the novel’s well-wrought scenes, but a recent Goodreads reviewer writes that she would like to slap its heroine. I consider these kinds of responses to be a function of what I call “emotional taste,” and I propose explanations for differences in emotional taste by closely analyzing how the novels construct affective experiences using tools with variable associations. In doing so, I attend to the way formal, linguistic, and mechanical features gain or lose emotional relevance depending on a reader’s historical positioning and attitude toward the text. I argue that because the craft of gothic fiction carries complex histories of emotional relation within and beyond the text, when critics judge the writing of these novels as good or bad, their judgments reveal less about the quality of the writing and more about the affective norms of literary and critical expression that inform the judgment. In turn, when critics argue that certain kinds of reading are good or bad, they draw attention to the ways these affective norms are in flux. Using a broad range of responses from professional and amateur critics, I demonstrate how the emotional rhetoric and conventions of diverse critiques, when put in conversation with the details of the text, can offer new perspectives on the novels and on the practices of literary criticism themselves.
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; criticism; eighteenth-century; emotion; gothic; novel; reception
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Mathews, E. J. (2018). Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste. (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/466519hb
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mathews, Elizabeth Jean. “Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste.” 2018. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/466519hb.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mathews, Elizabeth Jean. “Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste.” 2018. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mathews EJ. Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/466519hb.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Mathews EJ. Bad Writing: Responses to Early Gothic Fiction and the Cultivation of Emotional Taste. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/466519hb
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
UCLA
26.
Del Balzo, Angelina.
"Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815.
Degree: English, 2019, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0998z0zz
► Furbish’d Remnants argues that eighteenth-century theatrical adaptations set in the Orient destabilize categories of difference, introducing Oriental characters as subjects of sympathy while at the…
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▼ Furbish’d Remnants argues that eighteenth-century theatrical adaptations set in the Orient destabilize categories of difference, introducing Oriental characters as subjects of sympathy while at the same time defamiliarizing the people and space of London. Applying contemporary theories of emotion, I contend that in eighteenth-century theater, the actor and the character become distinct subjects for the affective transfer of sympathy, increasing the emotional potential of performance beyond the narrative onstage. Adaptation as a form heightens this alienation effect, by drawing attention to narrative’s properties as an artistic construction. A paradox at the heart of eighteenth-century theater is that while the term “adaptation” did not have a specific literary or theatrical definition until near the end of the period, in practice adaptations and translations proliferated on the English stage. Anticipating Linda Hutcheon’s postmodernist theory of adaptation, eighteenth-century playwrights and performers conceptualized adaptation as both process and product. Adaptation created a narrative mode that emphasized the process and labor of performance for audiences in order to create a higher level of engagement with audiences. Bringing together theories of emotion by philosophers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, and modern performance studies scholarship, I demonstrate how competing discourses of sympathy produced performance practices that linked stronger emotional response with theatrical artifice. One of the major changes in English stage adaptations, I contend, is a new emphasis on strong emotion and a new set of strategies for rendering feeling onstage. The Restoration tragedy’s emphasis on pathos significantly preceded the cult of sensibility expressed in the sentimental novel, as shown by Elkanah Settle’s transformation of the character Roxolana from virago to tragic heroine in his stage adaptation of Madeleine de Scud�ry’s novel Ibrahim. Reading the English translations of Voltaire’s Oriental tragedies, I illustrate how the metatheatrical distance created by and eighteenth-century stage practices and Orientalist settings increases the opportunity for sympathetic exchange, by offering both the character and the performer as recipients simultaneously. This expansive vision of emotional sharing enlivens tragedy, but it also opens up the more dangerous possibilities of an uncontrollable contagion of feeling at a historical moment when contact with strangers increases. The exotic settings in adaptations of the Arabian Nights’ frame tale of Scheherazade paradoxically domesticate these stories of marital cruelty, unfamiliar aesthetics on top all-too-recognizable sexual violence. At other moments in the period though, as in John O’Keeffe’s adaptation of “The Little Hunch-Back,” those blurred boundaries between individuals and nations enable cross-cultural sympathetic identification along with their exoticism. In adaptations portraying the Orient, these settings provide a reflexive space for eighteenth-century English…
Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Theater history; adaptation; eighteenth century; empire; Orient; sympathy; theater
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Del Balzo, A. (2019). "Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0998z0zz
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Del Balzo, Angelina. “"Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815.” 2019. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0998z0zz.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Del Balzo, Angelina. “"Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Del Balzo A. "Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0998z0zz.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Del Balzo A. "Furbish'd Remnants": Theatrical Adaptation and the Orient, 1660-1815. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0998z0zz
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Boston University
27.
Schoenberger, Melissa.
Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson.
Degree: PhD, English, 2015, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15687
► Virgil's Georgics portray peace and war as disparate states derived from the same fundamental materials. Adopting a didactic tone, the poet uses the language of…
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▼ Virgil's Georgics portray peace and war as disparate states derived from the same fundamental materials. Adopting a didactic tone, the poet uses the language of farming to confront questions about the making of lasting peace in the wake of the Roman civil wars. Rife with subjunctive constructions, the Georgics place no hope in the easily realized peace of a golden age; instead, they teach us that peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Despite this profound engagement with the consequences of civil war, however, the Georgics have not often been studied in relation to English writers working after the civil wars of the 1640s. I propose that we can better understand poems by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Anne Finch, and John Philips – all of whom grappled with the ramifications of war – by reading their work in relation to the georgic peace of Virgil's poem. In distinct ways, these poets question the dominant myth of a renewed golden age; instead, they model peace as a stable yet contingent condition constructed from chaotic materials, and therefore in need of perpetual maintenance. This project contributes to existing debates on genre, classical translation, the relationships between early modern poetry and politics, and most importantly, poetic representations of political and social peace. Recent work has argued for the georgic as a flexible mode rather than a formal genre, yet scholars remain primarily interested in its relation to questions of British national identity, agricultural reform movements, and the production of knowledge in the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century. I argue, however, for the relevance of the georgic to earlier poems written in response to the consequences of the English civil wars. The dissertation includes chapters devoted separately to Marvell, Finch, and Dryden, and concludes with a chapter on how their dynamic conceptions of georgic peace both inform and conflict with aspects of the popular eighteenth-century genre of imitative georgic poetry initiated by Philips and brought to its height by James Thomson.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; Eighteenth century; Georgic; Peace; Poetry; Restoration; Virgil
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Schoenberger, M. (2015). Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15687
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schoenberger, Melissa. “Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15687.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schoenberger, Melissa. “Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Schoenberger M. Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15687.
Council of Science Editors:
Schoenberger M. Cultivating the arts of peace: English Georgic poetry from Marvell to Thomson. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15687
University of Exeter
28.
Monaghan, Jessica Kate.
Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Exeter
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17876
► The simulation of sickness intrigued British writers from the very beginning of the eighteenth century, attracting attention within a wide range of social spheres. Drawing…
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▼ The simulation of sickness intrigued British writers from the very beginning of the eighteenth century, attracting attention within a wide range of social spheres. Drawing upon texts from the fields of literature, medicine, theology, welfare policy, the military, and the law courts, this interdisciplinary thesis combines close textual analysis with an examination of social and cultural contexts in order to explain why the issue of feigned illness became such a prevalent and enduring source of debate in eighteenth-century Britain. Both the allure and the threat of simulated sickness lay in the ability of ill health to confer power upon the sufferer. On the one hand ill health might operate as a signifier of social or spiritual importance, yet sickness also functioned as a source of practical power, enabling emotional manipulation, exemption from social duties, and access to resources. The perceived benefits of ill health made the identification of simulated illness a matter of importance, yet the subject would not have attracted such attention were it not for prevailing doubts as to the legibility of the body. As this thesis indicates, the varied attitudes towards and representations of simulated sickness provide fascinating insights into the preoccupations of writers of different spheres and periods. Nevertheless, broader trends in attitudes towards bodily legibility and feigned illness are visible. Early eighteenth-century writers were generally wary of trusting external appearances, while the middle decades of the century were marked by an expression of faith in the natural legibility of the body, as demonstrated by the fashion for the literature of sensibility, acting through feeling, and the medico-literary rhetoric of nerves. Renewed scepticism towards the close of the century resulted in growing debates about the duty of medical practitioners to detect feigned illness, and the methods by which this might be accomplished. While the treatment of the subject evolved, its continued relevance highlights a sustained cultural preoccupation with the legibility of the body and its potential to mislead or even deceive, a subject that continued to fascinate writers to the very end of the eighteenth century.
Subjects/Keywords: 900; Eighteenth century; Britain; Medicine; Feigned illness; Literature; Malingering
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Monaghan, J. K. (2015). Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Exeter. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17876
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Monaghan, Jessica Kate. “Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Exeter. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17876.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Monaghan, Jessica Kate. “Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Monaghan JK. Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17876.
Council of Science Editors:
Monaghan JK. Feigned illness and bodily legibility in eighteenth-century British culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17876
Uppsala University
29.
Lartaud, Elina.
Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804.
Degree: History of Science and Ideas, 2016, Uppsala University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295166
► The last two decades of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of numerous French travel compilations and descriptive texts studying the customs and ways…
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▼ The last two decades of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of numerous French travel compilations and descriptive texts studying the customs and ways of life of the peasants, an ethnographical interest that developed even further during the First French Republic. In this study, I identify and study a specific genre that I call republican ethnography. The republican ethnography was part of the Enlightenment’s search for a science of society and to the quest of finding the roots of the Republic. Studying travel literature and administrative reports from two French regions, Bretagne and Auvergne, this study examines the character and the meaning of the republican ethnographical projects. The republican travellers and administrators in Bretagne and Auvergne drew on a complex array of knowledge traditions, using categories from climate theory and medical thinking as well as the vocabulary of the travel literature. The study shows that the republican ethnography worked as way of establishing difference, where the French peasant was described as rude and “savage”, as well as similarity, since the travellers and administrators set out to find the unifying principles on which the Republic could be based.
Subjects/Keywords: travel literature; popular culture; eighteenth-century France; republican ethnography.
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Lartaud, E. (2016). Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804. (Thesis). Uppsala University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295166
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lartaud, Elina. “Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804.” 2016. Thesis, Uppsala University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295166.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lartaud, Elina. “Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lartaud E. Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804. [Internet] [Thesis]. Uppsala University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295166.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lartaud E. Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804. [Thesis]. Uppsala University; 2016. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295166
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University of Iowa
30.
Mangano, Bryan Paul.
Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel.
Degree: PhD, English, 2013, University of Iowa
URL: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563
► This dissertation argues that friendship operates in mid-eighteenth-century English fiction as a privileged category of virtue, knowledge, and aesthetic value. By representing social tensions…
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▼ This dissertation argues that friendship operates in mid-
eighteenth-
century English fiction as a privileged category of virtue, knowledge, and aesthetic value. By representing social tensions raised by extra-familial friendships and appealing to readers as friends, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Sarah Scott, and Laurence Sterne, develop ideal friendship into a reflexive trope for cultivating authorial identity, framing literary response, imagining a public sphere, and theorizing social reforms. Amiable Fictions offers a new way of thinking about the ethical frameworks that shape experimental narrative techniques at a moment when the English novel is just emerging into cultural prominence. In this study, I analyze the ways that these four novelists represent friendships as allegorical meditations on interpersonal ethics so as to imagine literary exchange as a virtual form of friendship. I explore how the idealized communicative intimacy of friendship becomes a basis for imagining more perfect spiritual and economic unions. On the level of plot, these fictions unpack the philosophical values of real friendship by staging its antagonism with persistent forms of patriarchy, aristocracy, and economic individualism. Drawing from the values of friendship that arise in the plot, these authors shape narrative exchanges as a tie of friendship. In cultivating an amiable ethos, they avoid appearing as slavish flatterers in a commercialized literary marketplace, or as overly didactic figures of institutional authority. Amiable Fictions builds on studies of the novel genre by accounting for the way a rhetoric of friendship motivates experiments in narrative form. I offer insights into developments in epistolary style, free indirect discourse, unreliable narration, anonymous authorship, and autobiographical form. I suggest that the concept of friendship orients these writers in their exploration of techniques, propelling them as they articulate a range of possibilities available for future authors of narrative fiction. This dissertation also engages current scholarly understandings of sociability, sensibility, domesticity, and public and private life in the mid-
eighteenth century. These novelists deploy friendship as a moral category that challenges codes of sociability, refines understandings of sympathy, and often antagonizes the emerging cultural authority of the domestic sphere. Reframing questions of gender and sexuality and their influence on literary forms, the project highlights how male characters imitate friendship between women (and vice versa), how social reform impulses raise the need for heterosexual friendship, and how non-familial friendship conflicts with domestic norms as an alternative mediator of public and private character.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gidal, Eric (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: authorship; eighteenth century; ethics; fiction; friendship; novel; English Language and Literature
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Mangano, B. P. (2013). Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Iowa. Retrieved from https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mangano, Bryan Paul. “Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Iowa. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mangano, Bryan Paul. “Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mangano BP. Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563.
Council of Science Editors:
Mangano BP. Amiable fictions: virtual friendship and the English novel. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2013. Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5563
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