Essays about: "Kira Sophie Hinderks"

Found 1 essay containing the words Kira Sophie Hinderks.

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

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE