Essays about: "eighteenth century"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words eighteenth century.
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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 ABMAbstract : 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
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2. Private Women with Public Opinions : Negotiating Gender in Early Modern Fashion Magazines
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis researches the construction of gender ideals for the new Middle Class and women’s involvement in the same by analysing fashion magazines published in Germany and Sweden between 1786 to 1827 and 1818 to 1844, respectively. The analysis consists of two parts: first, the share of women’s involvement in the public sphere as defined by Habermas as well as the justification of the inclusion of female-written texts and second, the nature of gender ideals in relation to the separate spheres’ framework. READ MORE
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3. On the Frail Edge of Humanity : Human Variety and the Exercise of Imperial Power Across the British Caribbean, 1700-1750
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : With the intention of analysing changes in natural history, human variation and the exercise of imperial power across the British Caribbean, this study poses the following questions: How did changes in natural history impact the understandings and applications of human variety, 1700–1750? How did natural history influence the exercise of imperial power in the British Caribbean? The study posits that there is a connection between natural history and imperial power. Through the contexts of the history of natural history and the history of fear, biopolitics acts as a theoretical framework wherethrough two themes of natural history, "spirits" and weaponry, are analysed using the travel writings of Hans Sloane, Henry Barham, Charles Leslie, Griffith Hughes and Patrick Browne. READ MORE
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4. The Secret Trade : Booksellers, advertisement and sexually transmitted diseases in eighteenth-century London
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the relationship between booksellers, medicine for sexually transmitted diseases, and advertising in eighteenth-century London. The analysis is based on trade cards, prints and advertisement in newspapers and periodicals. READ MORE
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5. Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Tailoring: A Qualitative Study of Craft Knowledge
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdAbstract : This thesis researches the craft knowledge in eighteenth-century sewing through case studies and reconstructions. With the theoretical framework of experimental archaeology, craft science and object-based research, it was found that reconstructions can be a suitable method to research and document craft knowledge and skills of hand sewing. READ MORE
