Sökning: "Enlightenment travel literature"
Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Enlightenment travel literature.
1. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. LÄS MER
2. Hedniska barbarer och harmlösa vildingar : Representationer av inre Eurasiens inhemska religioner hos John Bell, Lorenz Lange, Anders Pihlström och Philip Johan Tabbert von Strahlenberg
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : This essay aims to investigate the representations of inner Eurasia’s indigenous religions in the texts of west Europeans from the Age of Reason. Primary sources for the study are texts of John Bell, Lorenz Lange, Anders Pihlström and Philip Johan Tabbert von Strahlenberg. LÄS MER
3. Det andra Frankrike : Reselitteraturen, revolutionen och den republikanska etnografin i Bretagne och Auvergne, 1792-1804
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaSammanfattning : 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