This thesis is an exploration of the antiquarian materiality of Walter Scott’s fiction, considering his antiquarian practices alongside his fictional output to suggest that the two are vitally and intricately connected. It locates Scott’s antiquarian researches within the context of a contemporary antiquarianism increasingly concerned with safeguarding the relics, ruins, memories and manners of the national past. The aims of this thesis are threefold. First, it illuminates a more dedicated and dynamic participation in contemporary antiquarian practices than has previously been attributed to Scott, exploring a broad scope of material antiquarian activities in which he was engaged throughout his life. Second, it demonstrates how Scott’s literary output was shaped by his participation in aspects of material antiquarianism, populating his fictions with relics and remains, and recognising the potential of the material artefact as a productive site of narrative. Finally and most importantly, it argues that Scott’s fictions frequently act as textual extensions of his material practice. Scott’s poems and novels are in multifarious and dynamic ways actively involved in the processes of collection, exhibition, preservation, and conservation evident in Scott’s material practices. In so frequently and deliberately incorporating the material relics unearthed by his antiquarian practices into the corpus of his fiction, Scott’s literary works might be regarded as an additional space in which the material past might be preserved, conserved, exhibited, and enshrined. In this way, Scott’s literary works might therefore be considered as antiquarian repositories in which predominantly Scottish antiquities might be preserved.

<p>Samhället har genomgått mycket stora förändringar under 1900-talet. Vi har gått från ett jordbruksbaserat samhälle till ett industriellt och nu till dagens högteknologiska samhälle. Kvinnans roll har förändrats från att ha varit förvärvsarbetande i jordbruket till att under 1930- 1960-talet vara husmoder med uppgift att sköta hem och barn. Från 1960-talet har rollen förändrats till att vara deltagande i förvärvsarbetslivet tillsammans med ansvaret för hushållsarbetet. Samtidigt som denna process skett har en utveckling inom området hushållsteknik påverkat kvinnornas arbete i hemmet. Denna studie undersöker genom intervjuer med fyra personer, hur hushållstekniken påverkat kvinnors arbete, och hur kvinnors arbete ändrats från 1930-talet till dagens samhälle. De intervjuade bodde alla på samma gata – Hedvägen i Varberg- under sin barndom. Denna gata är en s.k. barnrikegata, där hyrorna subventionerades enligt antal barn i familjen. Således hade intervjupersonerna liknande hemförhållanden vilket underlättar jämföranden dem emellan. Intervjuerna analyseras med ett genusperspektiv genom Yvonne Hirdmans teori om genuskontrakt och Joan Wallach Scotts analysmodell för genus. Resultatet av studien visar att Hirdmans teori om genuskontrakt gällde även hos de intervjuade personerna.</p>

Samhället har genomgått mycket stora förändringar under 1900-talet. Vi har gått från ett jordbruksbaserat samhälle till ett industriellt och nu till dagens högteknologiska samhälle. Kvinnans roll har förändrats från att ha varit förvärvsarbetande i jordbruket till att under 1930- 1960-talet vara husmoder med uppgift att sköta hem och barn. Från 1960-talet har rollen förändrats till att vara deltagande i förvärvsarbetslivet tillsammans med ansvaret för hushållsarbetet. Samtidigt som denna process skett har en utveckling inom området hushållsteknik påverkat kvinnornas arbete i hemmet. Denna studie undersöker genom intervjuer med fyra personer, hur hushållstekniken påverkat kvinnors arbete, och hur kvinnors arbete ändrats från 1930-talet till dagens samhälle. De intervjuade bodde alla på samma gata – Hedvägen i Varberg- under sin barndom. Denna gata är en s.k. barnrikegata, där hyrorna subventionerades enligt antal barn i familjen. Således hade intervjupersonerna liknande hemförhållanden vilket underlättar jämföranden dem emellan. Intervjuerna analyseras med ett genusperspektiv genom Yvonne Hirdmans teori om genuskontrakt och Joan Wallach Scotts analysmodell för genus. Resultatet av studien visar att Hirdmans teori om genuskontrakt gällde även hos de intervjuade personerna.

For years F. Scott Fitzgeralds <i>The Great Gatsby</i> has garnered attention from critics as having a relationship to American transcendentalist thought. While most acknowledge Jay Gatsbys corruption and materialism, they continue to hold on to a belief in his supposed idealism and difference from other characters in the novel. Even critics who note irony in the novel do not recant their arguments regarding Gatsbys romanticism. One cannot make a straightforward connection between transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau without noting how Gatsby is truly a perversion of transcendental ideals. Specifically, in examining Gatsby with Emersons concept of self-reliance in mind, it is clear that Fitzgerald could never see Gatsby as a self-reliant individual. Indeed, Gatsby fails in every test that can identify him as being a self-reliant man. He is materialistic; he breaks the law for no larger purpose; he loves an insignificant and vapid woman who is as materialistic as the rest of this corrupt society; he has no true identity; does not dispute the contention that the ideal of self-reliance is noble, it argues that such an ideal is unrealizable in the corrupt and materialistic society of the Jazz Age.

For years F. Scott Fitzgeralds <i>The Great Gatsby</i> has garnered attention from critics as having a relationship to American transcendentalist thought. While most acknowledge Jay Gatsbys corruption and materialism, they continue to hold on to a belief in his supposed idealism and difference from other characters in the novel. Even critics who note irony in the novel do not recant their arguments regarding Gatsbys romanticism. One cannot make a straightforward connection between transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau without noting how Gatsby is truly a perversion of transcendental ideals. Specifically, in examining Gatsby with Emersons concept of self-reliance in mind, it is clear that Fitzgerald could never see Gatsby as a self-reliant individual. Indeed, Gatsby fails in every test that can identify him as being a self-reliant man. He is materialistic; he breaks the law for no larger purpose; he loves an insignificant and vapid woman who is as materialistic as the rest of this corrupt society; he has no true identity; does not dispute the contention that the ideal of self-reliance is noble, it argues that such an ideal is unrealizable in the corrupt and materialistic society of the Jazz Age.

This dissertation is an argument for the existence of a previously unidentified rebellion novel genre. A close study of dozens of rebellion novels proved this to be true. The findings are a significant step in genre studies and in the general understanding of British novels with political purposes. This dissertation primarily focuses on the rebellion novels by Sir Walter Scott (Waverley, Rob Roy, Black Dwarf, Tale of Old Mortality, and The Heart of Mid-Lothian), Charles Dickens (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, and The Tale of Two Cities), and Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped, David Belfour, Dynamiter, The Young Chevalier and Pentland Rising), brushing over the rebellion novels of several other major nineteenth century authors. The category of rebellion novels is defined according to both linguistic (sentence and word structure, use of regional and class dialects and use of foreign languages) and structural (purpose, characters, setting, plot and generic) criteria. Genre is commonly studied either with structuralism or with linguistics, but it is illogical to separate linguistics from structure in a discussion of a literary category. In order to create a unified, single argument, I am focusing on the radical purpose rebellion novelists had in mind when they wrote rebellion novels, and I am extending the discussion of purpose into the linguistic and structural sections for each author, to explain subversive and radical politics at work even in the structural and linguistic elements of these works. Scott, Dickens and Stevenson used the tools of political literary propaganda to assist the poor, disenfranchised and periphery people that they identified with and hoped to see free from oppression and poverty. / Dr. Christopher R. Orchard Dr. Christopher Kuipers Dr. Signe Wegener

Diss.--Göttingen--Univ. Göttingen, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. [261]-284. Index.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Mainz--Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 373-420.

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