Sökning: "Eighteenth-century culture"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden Eighteenth-century culture.

1. 1. Cromwell on the Moon; Or, Printing, Popularity, Persuasion : An Account of Text Reuse Patterns and Eighteenth-Century Utopian Thinking

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Författare :Kira Sophie Hinderks; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Utopias; Text Reuse; Intellectual History; Eighteenth Century; ECCO; Print Culture;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis approaches eighteenth-century utopian thinking from a new methodological angle, namely by utilising the Reception Reader, an open-access text reuse detection tool, to study a sub-corpus of 39 utopian works available in ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), the largest collection of digitised eighteenth-century texts printed in the British and Irish Isles. As the first study of text reuse in utopian thinking, this thesis shows that text reuse detection is a viable method for gaining new insights into eighteenth-century utopian thinking. LÄS MER

3. 2. ”Oförtruten Flit Och Möda uti Hushålds Giöromål” : Om 1700-talets föreställningar om hemmet och Pehr Hilleströms högreståndsinteriörer

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Anders Eklöv; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Pehr Hilleström; genre painting; interior scenes; home; household; Eighteenth-century culture; Michael Baxandall; period eye.;

   Sammanfattning : The genre paintings of the artist Pehr Hilleström (1732–1816) are frequently used as illustrations of everyday life in the Swedish late Eighteen-century bourgeois households. The aim of this study is to examine Hilleströms interior scenes as a source to the cultural history of the Eighteenth century in Sweden. LÄS MER

4. 3. The sociology of maps : Land surveying production and networking practices during Storskiftet in Sweden 1761–1769

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Författare :Sarah Vorminder; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Lantmäteriet; Storskiftet; land surveying; map making; the enlightenment; scientific culture; eighteenth-century; agriarian revolution; network;

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5. 4. The Book of Kindness : Social Reformers Use of Kindness: 1760-1800

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Författare :Samantha-Jo Armstrong; [2017]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : In the English socio-cultural landscape of the late eighteenth-century, the concept of kindness inhabited a place of importance for its proponents. For kindness was regarded as actions derived from the capacity of humans to do good. Which resulted in the experience and creation of good qualities, situations, and interactions. LÄS MER

7. 5. Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Författare :Elina Lartaud; [2016]
   Nyckelord :travel literature; popular culture; eighteenth-century France; republican ethnography.;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER