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1. "Wackra böcker stundom läsa…" : Om attityder till kvinnors läsning i svenskt 1700-tal
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : In a well-known verse Swedish eighteenth century writer Anna Maria Lenngren advise her fictive daughter to avoid reding, since it might distract her from her household chores. This paper intends to examine attitudes towards women’s reading in eighteenth century Sweden, using different kinds of sources: Satirical verses, conduct books for girls and young women and genre paintings by Swedish painter Pehr Hilleström, depicting bourgeoise and aristocratic interiors. LÄS MER
2. Bäckadräkten : Ty själen har inget kön
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiSammanfattning : This essay presents how a newly created non-binary folk costume named Bäckadräkten will change and challenge traditions regarding Swedish folk costumes from the eighteenth century. Bäckadräktens background as a tool to invent a new type of non-binary folk costume is presented. LÄS MER
3. Medel att återställa kroppens och själens krafter? Om Carl von Linnés syn på växters inverkan på människans sinne(n) i Inebriantia år 1762
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : Abstract: Carl Linnaeus’s dissertation Inebriantia (1762) emerges as a transitional piece at the intersection of the early modern and the modern period, reflecting 18th-century beliefs about inebriation, the natural world, and its mysterious forces. This study explicates Linnaeus’s perspective on the interaction between plants and human mental states by addressing the question: How does Linnaeus perceive the relationship between plants and the human mind in Inebriantia? Drawing on the history of emotions and senses, Linnaeus’s conceptualization of altered states of consciousness and the role of non-human actants in shaping human mental states is explored. LÄS MER
4. Skönhet, hygien och bruket av smink : Sminkdiskurs och manlighet under 1700- och 1800-talen?
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaSammanfattning : This thesis concerns the use of makeup by men during the late eighteenth century andthroughout the nineteenth century. The purpose is to study the discourse of makeup duringthis period, but with special focus on the man’s problematic use of makeup. LÄS MER
5. 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 ABMSammanfattning : 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
