Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1980. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 1988.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California at Berkeley, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-278).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California at Berkeley, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-278).

The thesis uses the study of an individual’s book collection to examine wider themes in eighteenth century Scottish legal, social, political, and intellectual history. Charles Areskine’s library was made up of the books he needed as an advocate and judge, the texts he wanted to use to better understand the law and its history, and the books he used to enhance his ability to participate in the intellectual milieu of early eighteenth century Britain. Charles Areskine of Alva, Lord Tinwald (1680-1763) was an important Scottish lawyer and judge. Following a legal education in the Netherlands, he became an advocate and was called to the Bar in 1711. Areskine’s legal career was very successful and he attained high positions in the Scottish legal establishment becoming Lord Advocate (1737-1742) and Lord Justice Clerk (1748-1763). He was appointed to the bench as Lord Tinwald in1744. He served in parliament and developed his country estates at Tinwald in Dumfriesshire and at Alva in Clackmannanshire. Areskine is an interesting figure in the early Scottish Enlightenment not least because he began his career not in legal but in academic circles. He was a regent at the University of Edinburgh when he was barely out of his teens and from 1707 to 1734 he was the first Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh. Areskine was also a traveller, a client of the earl of Ilay, a friend to philosophers, a patron of the arts, and a book collector. A manuscript which lists of the contents of Areskine’s library survives in the National Library of Scotland as NLS MS 3283. ‘Catalogŭs Librorŭm D. Dni. Caroli Areskine de Barjarg, Regiarŭm Causarum Procŭratoris. 1731’ lists 1290 titles divided into books on legal topics, which are not given any specific headings, and ‘Libri Miscellanei’. Although it is clearly dated as 1731, the manuscript was continuously added to and acted as a library catalogue throughout Areskine’s life. The list provides important evidence about Areskine’s participation in the legal, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the early Scottish Enlightenment. Areskine’s law books provide evidence for his scholarly interest in the history of law while showing the types of books lawyers turned to in order to fashion their arguments in the courts. His ‘miscellaneous’ books demonstrate his engagement with the wider cultural concerns of the first half of the eighteenth century. The books that eighteenth century Scottish lawyers owned provide evidence for their interests and influence. Areskine was not unique: his book collecting was part of a wider tradition among Scottish lawyers. Areskine’s legally educated patron, Archibald Campbell, had one of the largest private libraries in Britain and his colleagues on the Bench, Lord Arniston and Lord Hailes, created collections which they stored in specially built rooms in their houses. Because so many of them survive in the Alva Collections of the Advocates Library and the National Library of Scotland, it has been possible to examine Areskine’s books for clues about who owned them before he did and what happened to them after his death. Several inscriptions and bookplates survive in the Alva books which give evidence for a lively book market which was centred on the Scottish legal community. Advocates bought and sold many of their books at auctions. This study shows that books on topics of interest to Scottish lawyers changed hands and stayed in use for decades.

Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude comparative des bibliothèques de laïcs et de clercs du nord de la France et de l’Italie septentrionale entre 1400 et 1520. Les rapports entre les territoires français et italien ne sont plus à démontrer, marqués pour le début de notre période par la résolution progressive du Grand Schisme et, pour la fin, par les guerres d’Italie menées entre 1494 et 1516. Au cours du quinzième siècle et jusqu’au début du seizième siècle, des phénomènes culturels de premier ordre tel que la diffusion de l’humanisme et, sur le plan matériel, l’invention de l’imprimerie se diffusent dans l’Europe entière. Nous avons choisi de nous intéresser à des catégories «traditionnelles» de possesseurs comme les membres du clergé séculier, mais aussi à de nouvelles catégories émergentes de possesseurs, notamment la bourgeoisie. / This thesis aims at the comparative study of libraries of laity and clerics in the north of France and northern Italy between 1400 and 1520. The relations between the French and Italian territories are no longer to be demonstrated, marked for the beginning of our period by the progressive resolution of the Great Schism and, for the end, by the Italian wars between 1494 and 1516. In the fifteenth century and up to the beginning of the sixteenth century, cultural phenomena of the first order such as dissemination of humanism and, on the material level, the invention of printing spread throughout Europe. We have chosen to focus on "traditional" categories of possessors such as the secular clergy, but also to emerging categories of possessors, including the bourgeoisie.

La thèse est une étude génétique des œuvres de l’écrivain sicilien Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996). À travers l’analyse du processus d’écriture, ce travail reconstruit la genèse des toutes les œuvres terminées par Bufalino pendant sa jeunesse et jusqu’à son exorde, en 1981, avec le roman Diceria dell’untore. Les sondages effectués dans les archives conservant les matériaux génétiques de Bufalino nous a permis d’anticiper la phase créative de Bufalino aux années 1955-65. Nous avons notamment identifié dans un roman inédit, Il guazzabuglio, qui remonte à 1977, une sorte de canevas où de réservoir, d’où l’écrivain tira des thèmes ou des séquences narratives pour d’autres œuvres. Ce roman toujours considéré comme inachevé non seulement fut complété par Bufalino, mais il fut aussi étroitement lié à la genèse des deux premiers romans, Diceria dell’untore (1981) et Argo il cieco (1984), d’une part, et avec Qui pro quo (1991) et Tommaso e il fotografo cieco (1996), le dernier roman de Bufalino qui peut être considéré́ comme sa réécriture. Les œuvres achevées et publies de 1981 jusqu’à sa mort, en 1996, ont été le résultat d’un processus créatif commencé pendant sa jeunesse et poursuivi pendant tout sa vie. La reconstruction de la genèse des ouvrages rédigés avant 1981, est accompagnée de la reconstruction de la biographie intellectuelle de Bufalino à travers l’étude des sources et documents d’archive. / The thesis is a genetic study of the works of the Sicilian writer Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996). Through the analysis of the writing process, this study reconstructs the genesis of all the works completed by Bufalino during his youth and up until his debut in 1981, with the novel Diceria dell'untore. The research carried out in the archives which hold the genetic materials of Bufalino enabled us to date the creative phase of Bufalino in the period 1955-65. In particular, we have identified in an unpublished novel, Il guazzabuglio, dating back to 1977, a kind of canvas or reservoir, from which the writer drew themes or narrative sequences for other works. This novel, still considered unfinished, was not only completed by Bufalino, but was also closely linked to the genesis of the first two novels, Diceria dell'untore (1981) and Argo il cieco (1984), on the one hand, and to Qui pro quo (1991 and Tommaso e il fotografo cieco (1996), Bufalino’s last novel which can be considered its rewriting. The works completed and published from 1981 until his death in 1996, were the result of a creative process begun during his youth and continued throughout his life. The reconstruction of the genesis of the works written before 1981 is accompanied by the reconstruction of the intellectual biography of Bufalino through the investigation of sources and archive documents.

Partindo do efeito de leitura percebido nas escrituras autorrreflexivas de Machado de Assis e Gustave Flaubert que, por meio de uma intensa solicitação a discursos já-escritos, pareciam escrever verdadeiros livros feitos de livros , o presente trabalho se propôs estudar a interdiscursividade dos autores, compreendida dentro de suas práticas de escrita e de leitura, a partir do que chamamos de biblioteca fantástica, num diálogo explícito com a teoria de Michel Foucault. Seguindo dois eixos principais, nos quais pretendíamos observar a obra dentro da biblioteca (o espaço das bibliotecas reais dos autores enquanto o lugar privilegiado da enunciabilidade das obras) e a biblioteca dentro da obra (a ficcionalização do livro e dos elementos concernentes ao sistema literário presente nas escrituras), fomos levados a entrever a relação tensional com o já-escrito operada pelas escrituras dos dois autores, aspecto reforçado pelo recurso a ardis ficcionais distintos, a saber, o autor ficcional machadiano e o discurso indireto livre flaubertiano. Ao longo de nosso percurso crítico, percebemos que a biblioteca fantástica dos autores estudados, construída no intervalo entre os dois citados eixos, mostrou-se reveladora da problemática concernente à enunciabilidade e à legibilidade das obras, já que a interdiscursividade de suas escrituras autorreflexivas questionava as formas naturalizadas ou impostas de escrever e de ler, recolocando a literatura enquanto questão. / Having as a starting point the reading effect of Machado de Asiss and Gustave Flauberts self reflecting narratives which, due to the intense recourse to other discourses, seem to be books made of other books , the aim of this work is to study these writers interdiscursivity practices, as observed in their writing and reading practices through the concept of the fantastic library, in an explicit dialogue with Michel Foucaults theory. Following two main paths from which we would like to observe the literary work inside the library (the space of the writers real libraries as a privileged viewpoint of their enunciability) and the library in the work (that is, the image of the book and of elements of the literary system represented in the books), we noticed a tense relationship with these other discourses in these two writers practices, which is reinforced by the recourse to different narratological devices such as the fictional author in Machado and free indirect style in Flaubert. As our analysis progressed, we perceive that the fantastic library of those authors, construed between those paths already mentioned, revealed some of the problems related to their enunciability and legibility, as the interdiscursivity of these self reflecting narratives questions not only naturalized or imposed manners of reading and writing but literature itself.

A tese busca compreender em que medida o poeta e professor régio Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga (1749-1814) pode ser considerado um representante do ideário ilustrado na América portuguesa. Silva Alvarenga, como estudante de Cânones na Universidade de Coimbra entre os anos de 1768 e 1776, viveu o período da reforma da Universidade empreendida pelo Marquês de Pombal. Retornou ao Brasil e, em 1782, tornou-se professor régio de Retórica no Rio de Janeiro. Foi o principal articulador da Sociedade Literária do Rio de Janeiro, fundada em 1786. Em 1794, foi preso, juntamente com outros membros da Sociedade, sob as acusações de promover a circulação de idéias francesas, de conspirar contra a Coroa Portuguesa e contra a religião católica. Levando em consideração a sua formação acadêmica, sua trajetória após seu retorno à América portuguesa, as características de sua obra poética e a constituição de sua livraria - uma das mais importantes do período colonial -, o trabalho busca avaliar em que medida Silva Alvarenga pode ser considerado um representante das Luzes na América portuguesa, tendo como prisma compreender quais as modalidades das Luzes que podem ser verificadas em sua trajetória. / This thesis tends to comprehend in which ways the poet and regal teacher Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga (1749-1814) can be considered a representative of the Enlightment in Portuguese America. Silva Alvarenga, studying Canonic Law at Coimbra University between 1768 and 1776, experimented the period of the reformation of the university, projected by the Marquis of Pombal. After his return to Brazil, he became Rhetoric regal teacher at Rio de Janeiro, in 1782. He was the most active member of the Sociedade Literária do Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1786. In 1794, he went to prison, accompanied by other members of the Sociedade, accused of promoting the circulation of French ideas and conspiracy against the royal power and the catholic religion. Considering his academic background, his trajetory after his return to Brazil, the aspects of his poetic writings and the constitution of his private library one of the most important of the colonial period , the work tends to appraise in which ways Silva Alvarenga can be considered as a representative of the Enlightment in Portuguese America, aiming to understand which tendencies of the Enlightment can be seen in his trajetory.

Throughout Victoria's reign, Lord Lindsay and his son Ludovic, respectively twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford, created one of the largest private libraries ever assembled in Britain. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana included some six thousand manuscripts, which Ludovic sold to Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 for £155,000. The principal problematic that I address in this thesis is: Why did the earls of Crawford invest vast amounts of financial and cultural capital in this endeavour? In other words, what factors - both structural and specific - led to the formation of the library, what purposes did it serve, and what roles did its manuscript components in particular perform? Other questions include: How - and how successfully - did Lindsay and Ludovic maintain physical and intellectual control over the rapidly growing library? How did they position themselves within networks of connoisseurship and collecting in Victorian Britain? How was the formation of the Oriental manuscript collections connected with Lindsay's interest in racial classification and with wider racial discourses? And how did the library reflect and reinforce Lindsay's identity as a gentleman-scholar? Previous studies of this and other manuscript collections have adhered to an antiquarian, bio-bibliographical model, focusing on the detailed matter and mechanisms of collecting, rather than exploring the socio-cultural and epistemological contexts of their development. This thesis, by contrast, constitutes the first extended application of cultural theory to a manuscript collection, or indeed to any private library, in the nineteenth century. I combine close archival work with Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and habitus to reveal the complex structuration and signification of the library, and to investigate the imbrication between the earls' personal agency and wider forces operating upon the library. My examination of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana has uncovered several key issues and themes hitherto unexplored in this or any other major private library of the nineteenth century. First, I argue that the reasons for the library's development reside principally in various forms of classification, which preoccupied Lindsay and reflected wider societal trends and taxonomies: the classification of libraries and the ramification of knowledge; Lindsay's deployment of the library to corroborate his and his family's social and cultural distinction (i.e. social classification); and an interest in racial classification, which reflected Orientalist discourses associated with imperialism. Secondly, while the dispersal of aristocratic collections in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a familiar trope, this study is the first to contextualize the decline of a private library within the struggle between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Finally, this is the first examination of the impact of professionalization upon private as opposed to public libraries, revealing the tensions between amateur traditions and growing professionalism and specialization in the nineteenth century. I thus 'read' through the library some of the wider socio-economic and cultural issues operating in Victorian Britain and its empire.