Cette monographie invite à une étude de la pensée de la frontière chez Walter Scott (1771-1832) à partir d’une analyse textuelle détaillée de ses romans écossais — dont l’intrigue se déroule en Écosse, près des Borders ou de la faille frontalière des Highlands, principalement aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles autour de l’Union des deux royaumes anglais et écossais. Elle découvre un ensemble d’interactions entre les concepts de limite et de frontière en s’appuyant sur une stratégie particulière, élaborée par l’auteur, fervent opposant à tout manichéisme. Ce dernier fixe les frontières envisagées comme des limites, des bornes immuables et infranchissables, pour ensuite les déconstruire, c’est-à-dire les traverser, les déplacer et les brouiller avant de les dissoudre dans le but d’atteindre un état d’entre-deux parfait où les contraires s’unissent harmonieusement. Cette thèse permet de dégager une voie du milieu scottienne faisant de Scott un écrivain d’avant-garde pour son époque, et qui reste très novateur aujourd’hui encore, car il annonce bien des préoccupations postmodernes. / This monograph is dedicated to the question of limits and borders in Walter Scott (1771-1832)’s Scottish novels — thus called because the stories are set in the Borders or near the Highland line mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries at the time of the Union between the two kingdoms of England and Scotland. A very detailed analysis of the texts of the novels helps us to discover a series of interactions between the two concepts of limit and border which are grounded in a particular strategy developed by the author — a fervent opponent to Manichaeism. He sets boundaries, seen as fixed and impassable limits, and then deconstructs them, i.e. has them be crossed, moved, blurred before dissolving them in order to reach a perfect in-between state where all opposites mingle harmoniously. This thesis enables us to define a Scottian middle way, which makes Scott an avant-garde writer in his own time, and still nowadays since he paves the way for many a postmodern concern.

A travers l'étude des récits de voyage de marchands nord-américains se rendant en Grande-Bretagne entre 1776 et 1815, il s'agit d'analyser les transferts culturels de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, et d’observer l’émancipation progressive de la jeune république nord-américaine vis-à-vis de son ancienne métropole. Il apparaît que ces marchands apportent une contribution essentielle à la construction d'une identité nationale nord-américaine alors en pleine définition. Le séjour outre-Atlantique encourage ce processus puisqu'il permet aux visiteurs de se mesurer à un "Autre" britannique, de prendre conscience de l’existence d’un caractère propre, de vanter la supériorité de leur modèle national, ainsi que de défendre, en tant que marchands, des valeurs spécifiques et une certaine vision de la société nord-américaine. / By studying the travel writings of North American merchants going to Great Britain between 1776 and 1815, we analyse the cultural transfers across the Atlantic and observe the growing emancipation of the young Republic from its former mother country. It appears that these merchants fully contributed to the creation of an American national identity. Their stay in Great-Britain undeniably encouraged this process, as it enabled visitors to measure themselves against a British « Other », to realise what made them truly American, to boast about their superiority, but also, as merchants, to defend specific values and a certain vision of the American society.

The thesis is about what the buildings at manor estates, vicarages and farms looked like and how they changed during the agrarian revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Through new clearings, mechanisation, land partition, and increased work distribution and specialisation, production increased vigorously during the period, which generally caused an increase in prosperity and lay the foundation for the subsequent industrial revolution. The aim was to study how houses and outbuildings were affected by changes in agriculture, household composition and work organisation, an area which to date has been relatively unexplored. The study, which was based on conditions in Lagunda, a flat-country town in central Sweden, shows that there has been both change and continuity in building developments. The buildings became increasingly larger as arable land acreage and livestock numbers increased, and they were also gradually rendered more efficient to facilitate production. The increase in profit led in turn to an increase in the standard of living and both houses and outbuildings were increasingly lavishly built. However the increasingly larger and better buildings were not only a product of improved economy but also a response to the increasing need for manifestation felt by the manor owners, clergymen and farmers whereby they could clearly mark their positions in relation to each other and to a growing class of non-propertied people. The boundaries between family and employee, as well as between ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ functions, were all the more clearly demarcated, both indoors and outdoors. Even if the changes were considerable on the whole, there was a clear line of continuity. Household reproduction was the primary aim and providing for the family could not be jeopardised, which explains why most changes took place in small steps at a time.

Orientador: Leila Meza Alegranti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T07:02:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moreno_AlessandraZorzetto_D.pdf: 2082183 bytes, checksum: abdb6a65d458b286fb3b74bc161dcff3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Na cidade de São Paulo, a assistência pública à crianças e jovens órfãos e abandonados surgiu no ano de 1825 com a organização de uma Casa de Expostos e Órfãos. No período anterior, os pais e mães que não podiam, ou não queriam ficar com os filhos, contavam somente com o auxílio particular oferecido por pessoas que recebiam e criavam a prole alheia. Amplamente difundida na América Portuguesa, a prática do acolhimento domiciliar de crianças e jovens era uma das faces de um complexo sistema de redes sócio-culturais. O objetivo desta tese é analisar essa prática sócio-cultural na cidade de São Paulo, entre 1765 e 1822, buscando delinear as motivações ao acolhimento e as relações estabelecidas entre acolhedores e acolhidos / Abstract: In the city of Sao Paulo, the public assistance to children and young orphans and abandoned emerged in the year of 1825, with the organization of a Casa de Expostos e Órfãos. In the previous period, the fathers and mothers who could not or did not want to stay with their children, included only with the aid offered by particular people who had created the childrens¿ others. Widely broadcast in Portuguese America, the practice of welcoming home for children and young people was one of the faces of a complex system of sociocultural networks. The objective of this thesis is to examine the socio-cultural practice in the city of Sao Paulo, between 1765 and 1822, seeking outline the reasons for the reception and the relationships established between receivers and accepted. / Doutorado / Historia Cultural / Doutor em História

This thesis deals with selected forms of the Manchu court influence on the relations of Khalkha and Inner Mongolia, eventually Northern China. It describes mainly the influences in the field of Buddhism (sir-a-yin šasin). It underlines the development of cultural-religious relations, phenomenon of pilgrimages, particularly the pilgrimages to Wutaishan, but the main topic is the role of Dolonnuur monastery and Dolonnuur municipality in the religious relations between Khalkha, Inner Mongolia and the Manchu court. Author points out, how the transitional period of these relations is reflected in the stories of Dolonnuur monks and in the increasing importance of Dolonnuur as a center of Chinese trade. This analysis is based on the local archive sources unpublished so far, especially the correspondence diaries of Dolonnuur monastery administrative bureau.