Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-279). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 346-352).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 297 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294).

Thesis (Ph. D. in English)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-10-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:43:01Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 trew_em_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1747957 bytes, checksum: fe9b3994cbd904f7c6dddac46841d96d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Apesar de obter sua maior projeção no século XIX, o gênero romance já se destacava no horizonte literário europeu do século XVIII e apresentava grandes transformações. Ele se firmou em meio a mudanças sociais, políticas e econômicas importantes. Este estudo focaliza duas obras desse período, Pâmela escrita por Samuel Richardson e Júlia, ou A nova Heloísa escrita por Rousseau, na Inglaterra e França, respectivamente, e considera características do gênero emergente como individualismo, sentimentalismo e moralismo que são destacadas nas duas obras. São realizadas também análises de aspectos como personagens, tempo e espaço, entre outros, a fim de verificar como essas categorias da narrativa se manifestavam na época no gênero nascente. O contexto em que as duas narrativas foram produzidas é também descrito e busca-se determinar sua influência enquanto elemento fundamental para a constituição do gênero. Por outro lado, a representação da mulher nessas duas obras é focalizada de maneira a demonstrar que o romance, ao mesmo tempo em que retratava a sociedade que o produzia e a posição que a mulher ocupava nela, ajudou também a forjá-la, alterando-lhe os conceitos e os comportamentos. A análise da mulher parte da representação feita em Pâmela e Júlia, ou A nova Heloísa no que se refere ao casamento, ao sentimento e à morte delas enquanto personagens femininas criadas por escritores homens. / Although the novel achieved its maturity in the nineteenth century, it was already present in the literary landscape during the previous century. It became consolidated in a time of important social, political and economic changes. This study focuses on two novels of this period, Pamela, by Samuel Richardson and Julie, or The new Heloise written by Rousseau and published in England and France, respectively, and considers characteristics of the new literary genre, such as individualism, sentimentalism and moralization, each pointed out in the two works. Other aspects such as characters, time and space are analyzed with the objective of observing how they were manifested in the period when the novel was appearing as a genre. The context where the two narratives were produced is also described so as to determine its influence as a fundamental element in the constitution of the novel. The representation of the woman in these two works is also considered as a means to show that the novel, even while reflecting the society that produced it, also helped to mold it. The analysis of the woman is based on the representation in Pamela and Julie, or The new Heloise in as much as it considers their marriage, sentiment and death as female characters created by authors who were men.

The edition of Pamela a person reads will affect his or her perception of Pamela's ascent into aristocratic society. Richardson's revisions to the fourteenth edition of Pamela, published posthumously in 1801, change Pamela's character from the 1740 first edition in such a way as to make her social climb more believable to readers outside the novel and to "readers" inside the novel. Pamela alters her language, her actions, and her role in the household by the end of the first edition; in the fourteenth edition, however, she changes in little more than her title. Pamela might begin as a novel that threatens the fabric of class hierarchies, but it ends-both within the plot and externally throughout its many editions-as a novel that stabilizes and strengthens social norms.

Thesis (doctoral)--Katholische Universität, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-411).

This thesis presents a biographical and literary study of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. It also looks at the romanticism and realism of Richardson, the realism of Fielding, and the differences between Richardson and Fielding.

This thesis examines representations of trust in selected British sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. It focuses principally on the manner in which sentimental prose fiction reflects and participates in the shift from premodern to modern formations of trust. Commenting on the nature of modern trust, Anthony Giddens claims that, with the move to modernity, trust relations in the intimate sphere become increasingly dependent on emotional mutuality, while trust in institutions becomes increasingly impersonal and disengaged from assessments of moral character. / My work explores this dual shift in three sentimental novels. It first analyzes Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and contends that Richardson denies the concept of honor its epistemological role in practical deliberations. The denial of the epistemology of honor uncouples the mechanism of personal trust from assessments of role and role performance and thus makes the trust in persons in the intimate sphere less dependent on institutional forms of trust. To replace honor's role in the formation of trust, Richardson proposes that the sentiments can provide reliable grounds for trust in the intimate sphere. However, he denies the sentiments a role in the formation of an encompassing social trust among strangers and mere acquaintances. The thesis proceeds to read Henry Fielding's Amelia (1751). In order to argue that Fielding envisioned divergent grounds for trust relations, it maintains that Fielding considers trust relations in the intimate sphere and trust relations in public life as based on the sentiments and fair distribution respectively. To conclude, the thesis investigates Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) to uncover the manner in which Goldsmith distinguishes personal trust in the intimate sphere from general system trust, which Goldsmith ultimately envisions as an ontological trust in providence.

Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 21, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.