The purpose of this master’s thesis is to describe by a gender approach what ideas and values are expressed in the novel One Night at Bullar Lake and how they do coincide to a tendency. We also want to discuss authority and class divisions and how these can be connected to the novel and the author. Our final question is to examine in what way the voice of the female author is represented in the novel. To approach our material we use Yvonne Hirdman’s theories about the construction of sexes and Susan Sniader Lanser’s work about voices of female authors, as well as Horace Engdahl’s studies about the silent voice in literature. We also use Pierre Bourdieu’s theories regarding the discussion about class divisions and authority. The method used for analysing the novel is a descriptive idea analysis where we have developed two ideal types on the basis of Åsa Arping’s research concerning the female situation around the 1840`s. The result of the study shows a novel with several meanings. Apart from the religious theme about the revivalist movement which the novel is based on, appear questions concerning the self-fulfilment and independence of women. The novel can be seen as an example of how female authors could find a way to express themselves in a literary world dominated by men.

Studiens övergripande syfte är att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan olika bruk av förstapersonspronomen i tre olika ämneskategorier av studenters c-uppsatser och refereegranskade artiklar och, i så fall, hur sambandet ser ut. Därtill vill denna studie undersöka om detta samband kan bero på följande faktorer: skribenters erfarenhet, skilda skrivkonventioner och skilda skrivpraxis i olika textdelar (d.v.s. inledning, forskningsbakgrund, metod osv). Förutom att jämföra andelen förstapersonspronomen kommer denna studie också att undersökas författaridentitet med utgångspunkt i Tang och Johns (1999) modell. Resultaten visar att i akademiskt skrivande förekommer förstapersonspronomen olika ofta i olika ämneskategorier av c-uppsatser och refereegranskade artiklar, vilket troligen beror på olika skrivkonventioner inom olika ämnen. Generellt förekommer förstapersonspronomen mest i två textdelar av den examinerade korpusen: inledning samt diskussion och avslutning. Detta indikerar att på grund av olika skrivpraxis, tillåts författare vara mer eller mindre närvarande i olika textdelar. Slutligen visar denna studie att den representativa identiteten är den mest frekventa i alla ämneskategorier av både c-uppsatser samt refereegranskade artiklar. / The aim of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between different uses of first-person pronouns in three different subject categories of students’ c-theses and peer-reviewed articles and, in that case, how this connection looks like. Also, if this connection may depend on the following factors: writers' experience, different writing conventions, different writing practices in different parts of text (i.e., introduction, research background, method etc.). In addition, this study aims to investigate the authorial identity based on Tang and John's (1999) model. The results show that, in academic writing, first-person pronouns occur differently in diverse subject categories of c-thesis and peer-reviewed articles, which is probably due to dissimilar writing conventions within different subjects. Generally, first-person pronouns occur mostly in two parts of text in the examined corpus: introduction and also discussion and conclusion. This pinpoints that, due to diverse writing practices, authors are allowed to be more or less present in different parts of text. To conclude, this study shows that the representative authorial identity is the most frequent in all subject categories of both c-theses and peer-reviewed articles.